Fattoush (Pitta Bread Salad)
Fattoush (Pitta Bread Salad)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, fattoush (pitta bread salad). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Middle Eastern Pita Salad (Fattoush Salad). Place the pitas on a nonstick sheet pan. This easy Fattoush Salad recipe made by Goutez is simple but tastes amazing!

Fattoush (Pitta Bread Salad) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Fattoush (Pitta Bread Salad) is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have fattoush (pitta bread salad) using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Fattoush (Pitta Bread Salad):
  1. Take 1 romaine lettuce (or 2 little gems) washed, spun and broken into inch size pieces
  2. Make ready 1 small red/purple onion, diced
  3. Prepare 3 small ripe tomatoes, diced
  4. Make ready 1/2 English cucumber, seeds removed and chopped
  5. Make ready 2 pitta breads
  6. Take dressing
  7. Prepare 1 garlic clove
  8. Take 1/2 lemon, juiced
  9. Get 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  10. Get 1 salt and black pepper
  11. Take optional extras
  12. Take 1 bunch cilantro, chopped
  13. Make ready 3 tbsp chopped parsley
  14. Take 1/2 cup chopped black olives

Fattoush is a version of bread salad made throughout the Middle East using leftover pita bread. The pita flatbreads are cut into pieces and either fried or baked before being tossed with fresh vegetables and dressing. Fattoush is a popular salad in Middle Eastern cuisine and especially in Lebanon. In a sense, it's the Middle East's version of Italian Panzanella which is a bread salad Panzanella is frequently made with hunks of sourdough and fattoush typically uses pita bread.

Instructions to make Fattoush (Pitta Bread Salad):
  1. Heat oven to 200 C
  2. Split the pittas and place them on a baking sheet
  3. Cook for 8 -10 minutes, turning over halfway through, until crispy and a little browned
  4. Set pittas aside to cool
  5. Put lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onion and tomatoes into a large salad bowl
  6. Make the dressing: if you have a pestle and mortar, smash the garlic with the salt until completely crushed. If not, crush with salt on a chopping board then put in a small bowl
  7. With the garlic, whisk in the lemon juice, oil and black pepper
  8. Break the pittas into pieces directly into the salad bowl
  9. Pour over the dressing and toss well
  10. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to let the flavours develop (I make hubby's the night before and he takes it to work the next day)

But there's no hard and fast rule about it. This Arabic fattoush salad is a colorful tossed salad with a lemony garlic dressing. Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Place pita pieces into the skillet without crowding. Fry in batches until golden brown and blot dry with paper towels.

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