Fattoush is a contemporary Center Japanese salad made with crispy toasted or fried items of pita bread jumbled with lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, and capsicum (bell peppers), tossed with a zesty lemon dressing. Serve with Lemon Garlic Hen for a Lebanese feast at dwelling!
When mates requested me what Fattoush is, I informed them it’s the Lebanese model of Panzanella. Then they requested me what Panzanella was. So I finished utilizing that rationalization and now I describe it as a contemporary perky Lebanese salad with tasty crunchy bits of crispy pita bread as an alternative of croutons!😂
It is a good salad to have in your repertoire while you’re after a facet salad for a Lebanese or Center Japanese meal. I’m sharing it because the recommended accompaniment for a Lebanese Lemon Garlic Hen dish that I additionally shared right this moment.
What you want for Fattoush
Right here’s what you want:
For the salad
Being a standard Lebanese dish, there’s really no strict guidelines for what goes in fattoush, although the mix proven beneath is common and gives an incredible distinction of colors and textures.
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Lettuce – Cos/romaine lettuce is typical although I make this with iceberg lettuce too.
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Radish
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Tomatoes – cherry/grape tomatoes or chop giant tomatoes
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Cucumber
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Purple onion
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Mint and parsley – The mint particularly brings nice contemporary flavour into this salad, however I’d nonetheless make fattoush with out both of those.
For the dressing
The dressing is kind of tangy, which is the way in which it’s imagined to be. The particular ingredient that makes this distinctive Lebanese somewhat than simply one other common lemon dressing is Pomegranate Molasses.
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Pomegranate molasses – A tart, candy syrup constructed from (await it…) pomegranate! Provides flavour, sweetness, tang and barely thickens the dressing. Nonetheless price making even with out, simply improve lemon juice barely and add a contact of honey.
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Lemon juice
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Sumac – A lemony purple spice powder utilized in Lebanese cooking. Nonetheless price making with out.
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Additional virgin olive oil – Use the good things!
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Garlic
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Salt
PITA BREAD OR LEBANESE BREAD – CRUNCHY CROUTONS!
Use Lebanese bread or pita bread (the skinny sort, not thicker bready sort). Reduce into items then toast or fry till crunchy!
No video for right this moment’s recipe as a result of I’m posting it as a fast ‘n simple facet to accompany right this moment’s Lebanese Lemon Garlic Hen.
Hope you get pleasure from! – Nagi x
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Lebanese Fattoush
Mains
lebanese, Center Japanese
Servings5 – 6 folks
Faucet or hover to scale
Substances
Crispy pita bread “croutons”
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Directions
Crispy pita bread “croutons”
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Preheat oven to 220°C/425°F (200°C fan-forced).
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Separate the pita bread into 2 skinny sheets. Reduce into 3cm / 1.2″ squares.
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Pile on a tray, drizzle with olive oil, toss, then sprinkle with the salt and toss once more.
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Unfold on the tray. Bake for five minutes or till crispy, then cool on the tray earlier than use.
Salad:
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Dressing – Shake the dressing components in a jar till nicely mixed.
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Salad – Place the Salad components in a big bowl. Drizzle over half the dressing, toss. Add a lot of the crispy pita chips, drizzle with remaining dressing and toss once more.
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Serve – Switch right into a serving bowl, high with remaining crispy pita and serve instantly.
Recipe Notes:
Impressed by varied recipes discovered on-line together with the Fattoush recipes by Zaatar and Zaytoun and the Guardian’s Learn how to make the proper fattoush.
