Itsch salad

Name: Itsch salad (Aunt Jinan’s Bulgur Salad)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Syrian
Ingredients: 2 tomatoes (diced); 2 spring onions (scallions) (chopped); 1 large bunch of flat-leaf parsley (coarsely chopped); Juice of 1 organic lemon; 4 tablespoons of pomegranate molasses, plus extra to serve; 200 ml (7 fl oz) of extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra to serve; 250 ml (1 cup) of boiling water; 225 g (8 oz) of fine bulgur (rinsed); 2 tablespoons of tomato paste (concentrated purée); Salt and pepper; 1 large onion (chopped); 2 tablespoons of olive oil; 1 tablespoon of dried mint (crushed)

Aunt Jinan’s Bulgur Salad

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sumac

By Anas Atassi

Published 2021

About

Ingredients

2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 large onion (chopped)
2 tablespoons

Asia
Syria
Vegan

Method

Heat the olive oil in a large pan and fry the onion for 5 minutes, or until soft.

Add the tomato paste and fry for 2 more minutes.

Add the bulgur and boiling water to the onion mixture. Turn the heat to low, cover and simmer the bulgur for 5 minutes, until all the water has been absorbed. Take the bulgur off the burner and cool.

Stir the extra-virgin olive oil, pomegrana