Fattoush salad (Lebanese salad)
April 18, 2018
It’s a sunny day in Belgium and i have made a very tasty BBQ as long as it is spring here and i made a salad as a side dish beside the BBQ, and this salad i promise you you’ll addicted. It’s perfect as a side dish as Hummos and baba ganosh.
It is created by a Fattoush family in Lebanon, people called the salad as Fattoush based on the family name.
The usual way to serve fattoush salad, just mix the fried bread with the salad, but in my recipe i tried to make a different way to serve. i cut the bread into triangles as tortilla, fried it and decorate my salad with.
What do you need to make Fattoush?
- Cucumber
- Tomatoes
- Iceberg lettuce
- Green onion or red onion
- Radish
- Green bell pepper
- Parsley
- Fresh mint
- Also you can add rocca or watercress
- Fried lebanese bread or pitta bread
Fattoush salad
Fattoush salad is a pefect lebanease dish, serve it as a side dish and enjoy it. It is very easy to make and the thing espaciales it from other salads is the dressing and the season, try it now and give me your feedback.
Ingredients
- ½ large Cucumber diced
- 2 large tomatoes diced
- 2 cups iceberg lettuce
- ¼ cup green onion or red onion diced
- 6 radish sliced
- 1 small green bell pepper sliced
- ½ cup parsley roughly chopped
- ½ cup fresh mint roughly chopped
For dressing :
- 3 Tbsp lemon juice
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 Tbsp ground sumac
- 2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- 1 loaf lebanese (bread) or Pitta bread
- ½ tsp Salt to taste
Instructions
- Cut the vegetables into a medium size diced, place in salad bowl.
- Roughly chopped parsley and mint.
- In a measuring cup add lemon juice, olive oil, sumac, pomegranate molasses and salt. Mix your dressing ingredients to combined.
- Add dressing in salad bowl, and mix to spread it on the salad.
- Cut bread as a triangles, or as a squares. Fry in a hot oil until golden brown.
- Decorate your salad with the fried bread. Top bread with more pomegranate molasses.
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Notes
- The size of vegetables depends on how you prefer your salad some people enjoy it with large diced and some prefer it with a small diced.
- Dressing and salt must added before serving the salad immediately.
- Can i add a minced clove of garlic to salad dressing? Yes you can it is (optional).
- What if i couldn't get pomegranate molasses? no problem lemon juice will be enough 🙂
