Fattoush - Lebanese Bread Salad
As with all Mediterranean salads the tastes are sublime - it beats limp lettuce and some of granny's shop bought coleslaw any day!!!
Preparation time: 15 - 20 minutes Quantity: Serves 5 - 6 Cooking time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
Sauce/ Dressing
1 clove crushed garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 bunch chopped mint
120 ml fresh lemon juice
100 ml olive oil
Salad
1/2 loaf flat bread or 4 pitta breads
4 leaves romaine lettuce, torn into 2 cm pieces 1/2 cucumber small diced
1 tomato small diced, skin, seeds and all
4 spring onions small chopped
1/2 red pepper small diced
1/2 tin/ approx. 120g chickpeas - washed
Method
- Mix all the ingredients for the sauce together and set aside until needed
- Bake the bread in a preheated oven gas 6 / 200*c for 5 minutes or until crispy and golden (keep an eye on it)
- Break by hand in to 1 inch pieces - cool slightly
- Mix all the salad ingredients together
- Toss with the dressing
- Serve
- Tip - dont leave to stand around all the bread will go to soggy, if you want to make ahead, leave the bread, salad ingredients and sauce separately and simply mix when needed