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Fattoush Salad

Ultimate Lebanese fattoush salad

Course Salad
Cuisine Lebanese
Keyword Authentic, Healthy, vegan
Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 6
Author Zaatar and Zaytoun

Ingredients

  • 2 Lebanese flat breads
  • 2 large tomatoes
  • half a cucumber
  • 2 spring onion
  • 5 radishes
  • a handful of parsley
  • a handful of baby leaf salad without rocket
  • 4-5 romaine lettuce leaves
  • a handful of Purslane or watercress leaves
  • 10 10 mint leaves
  • handful of Pomegranate seeds
  • drizzle of pomegranate molasses
  • 1 teaspoon sumac
  • good drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
  • ½ regular lemon
  • salt to taste approx 1 tspn
  • vegetable oil for frying

Instructions

  1. Wash all the vegetables

  2. Tear the flat breads into rough 1 inch squares.  Heat up the vegetable oil and deep fry the bread until just golden and set aside.

  3. Put a handful of mixed baby leaf salad into a bowl
  4. Chop the romaine lettuce into good sized squares
  5. Cut the tomatoes into medium bitesize chunks
  6. Slice the cucumbers and radishes into semi circles
  7. Finely chop the spring onion, parsley and mint leaves
  8. Pick a handful of purslane leaves, keep whole

  9. Sprinkle on the sumac and a good pinch of salt

  10. Add a good drizzle of lemon and extra virgin olive oil
  11. Add a tiny drizzle of pomegranate molasses and a handful of pomegranate seeds

  12. Mix, taste and adjust the seasoning as ecessary

  13. Add the fried bread just before eating
  14. Cry tears of joy