Fattoush

Name: Fattoush
Cuisine: Syria
Ingredients: ½ tsp ground cinnamon; sea salt; 4 tbsp olive oil; 3 tbsp lemon juice; 3 tbsp finely chopped parsley; 3 tbsp finely chopped mint; ½ sweet red pepper; 6 spring onions; freshly ground black pepper; 2 small Lebanese cucumbers; 2 ripe tomatoes; 1 round of Lebanese flat bread, or 2 pitta breads; 1 round of Lebanese flat bread, or 2 pitta breads

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 2002

About

This crunchy Syrian salad combines crisp grilled bread with fresh, juicy, summery flavours. It’s startlingly good with prawns, lobster or crab.

Ingredients

1 round of Lebanese flat bread, or 2 pitta breads
2 small Lebanese cucumbers

Asia
Syria
Salad
Vegan
Mediterranean

Method

Heat the grill. Open up the flat bread until you have two rounds, and grill lightly until crisp and golden. Crumble into small shards with your hands, and set aside.

Peel the cucumbers, cut in half lengthwise, and scoop out and discard the seeds. Halve the tomatoes and scoop out the seeds and juice. Chop the cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet pepper, radishes and spring onions, and mix with the