Fattoush - Toasted Bread Salad

"Fattoush is a classic Lebanese dish. It is often eaten by itself as a starter or light lunch. Saumac is an essential ingredient. It is a spice that is made from the dried, powdered berries of the sumac tree. It was my first time trying Saumac and I really enjoyed it, next time I would add one more teaspoon of the Saumac. This was used as a side salad for Recipe #218539 . This recipe comes from a book called "The Lebanese Cookbook" by Hussien Dekmak"
 
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Ready In:
15mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Combine all the vegetables in a large bowl and mix well.
  • Add the garlic, parsley, sumac, bread, olive oil and salt to taste.
  • Toss everything together and serve immediately.

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  1. Thank you for this recipe. It was the basis for a great salad. I added the same amount of lemon juice as oil and upped the sumac to 1 tbs. Try it this way and you will LOVE this salad.
     
  2. I was looking for a traditional Fattoush recipe, using sumac and came across this recipe. It sounded the most authentic except for the lack of lemon juice. I am not sure if this was an oversight by the poster or not. I added about 2 Tbsp of lemon juice along with the olive oil and this salad was excellent!!! It tastes just like the one I get at our local Lebanese restaurant. I would rate this recipe 5* if it included the lemon juice.
     
  3. Fine but nothing special. I know it is not traditional but even my local Lebanese restaurant leaves out the pita bread sometimes and I did have to as we are gluten free. I think chunks of carrot are not good in salad as they are so hard compared to other ingredients (for example I think a poor combo is carrots and tomatoes). I grated mine, still the cruddy carrots from the regular grocer with hardly any flavour, no lettuce on hand, I used Lebanese cucumbers which I peeled (wax/pesticides), wonderful tomatoes, extra sumac, cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, sea salt to taste and some freshly squeezed lemon juice as I had some ready and other reviewers said I should, plus the rest of the ingredients. I'd try another recipe next time.
     
  4. Made for a family gathering, I doubled this recipe, and it was enjoyed by all. I didn't sufficiently toast my bread, but it was nonetheless marvellous in this salad. Colourful and fresh, it was a great accompaniment to a buffet lunch, and I got DS to do the chopping! Really liked this, FloWer, and I am not generally a big salad fan! Thanks for a lovely recipe.
     
  5. This was great, I loved it. It was fresh and healthy and the addition of flatbread made it a really substantial lunch. I had never used sumac before but really enjoyed its flavor in this salad, so much so that I was quite liberal with it the next time I made it. Thanks so much for this recipe.
     
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