Fattoush
posted by Barbara Crick on Tags: BBQ, food, healthy, Inspiration, vegetarian
Fattoush
This is the recipe for you if you are looking to take a side dish to a barbecue this summer, or fancy a light lunch full of flavours. This is a Middle Eastern salad using pitta bread and lots of fresh vegetables. You can get creative with the vegetables – just use whatever is in the fridge! The dressing uses sumac which is a spice which you may not have come across – it is a dried, crushed berry used in Middle Eastern cookery – you may have seen it scattered on the top of dishes of hummus.
Ingredients
For the salad
1 pitta bread, toasted and cut into strips
2 vine ripened tomatoes, cubed
quarter cucumber, cubed
half pepper, cubed
handful black olives
4 radishes, sliced
handful rocket
1 little gem lettuce, torn
handful fresh mint, torn
For the dressing
100ml mild olive oil
2 lemons, juice and zest
1 small garlic clove, grated
1 tbsp sumac
to taste salt and pepper
Method
1. Combine all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Whisk all the dressing ingredients together and pour over the salad, toss together to ensure an even coating.
If you are preparing the salad in advance, I would hold back on adding the pitta bread and dressing until you are just about to serve.