Middle Eastern Salad: Fattoush
Best enjoyed with other mezze such as any of these dips such as Baba ganoush, Labneh or Muhammara. Having said that it easily combines with ingredients like grilled tuna or chicken. For more on the history of this dish see salads of the Middle East.
Ingredients
For the fattoush- 3 pita bread
- 2 little gem lettuces
- 1 handful lamb's lettuce
- 4 large, ripe tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 1 cup radishes
- 1 green pepper
- 6 spring onions
- 1 handful fresh mint
- 1 handful fresh parsley
- 1 Generous glug of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Juice of one lemon
- 1 tsp sumac
- 1 pinch sea salt
Details
- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
- Recipe Type: Salad
- Difficulty: Easy
- Preparation Time: 20 mins
- Cooking Time: 0 mins
- Serves: 4
Step-by-step
- Set the oven to 180 degrees C. Slice the pita thinly and coat in a little olive oil and salt. Bake for about 20 minutes, turning regularly, until crisp and golden.
- Simply chop all the vegetables - the cucumber and tomatoes into thin half moons, the radishes roughly, the lettuce, purslane, pepper and onions finely - and mix together.
- Finely chop the mint and parsley, and add these to the mix, keeping some back to decorate. Dress with the darkest, richest extra virgin olive oil you can find, the lemon juice, sumac and salt before adding the toasted pita, breaking it into smaller pieces as you do so.
Middle Eastern Salad: Fattoush
Middle Eastern dips: Baba ganoush
Middle Eastern dips: Muhammara