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Fattoush

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Fattoush is a traditional Eastern Mediterranean salad made out of toasted or fried pita bread mixed with greens. Sumac is used to give this salad a fruity astringent taste. Sumac is the dark purple / red berries of a bush grown throughout the Middle East and parts of Italy. It is sold ground or in dried berry form.

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 piece fresh pita bread
  • Olive oil
  • 5 cherry tomatoes sliced
  • 1 roughly chopped spanish onion
  • 1 teaspoon sumac
  • 1 roughly chopped lebanese cucumber
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • ¾ bunch mint picked
  • 1/3 bunch picked continental parsley
  • 1/3 bunch picked coriander
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 lemon juiced
  • 100 ml extra virgin olive oil
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Method

  1. Heat a little olive oil in a pan and fry the pita bread until crispy.
  2. Tear the bread into a bowl and add the tear drop tomatoes, onion, sumac, cucumber, salt, pepper, mint, parsley and coriander.
  3. In a mortar and pestle, pound a pinch of salt together with the garlic and add lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil and pepper.
  4. Add the dressing to the salad and serve straight away.
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