Fattoush for GeeGee and others

[Guest guest]

Sorry I've been offline GeeGee. Something weird with . Someone

else correctly posted that Fattoush is a salad with toasted bread.

And cucumber, tomatoes, some kind of lettuce (purslane is preferred),

parsley (or mint) and sumac powder. The dressing is lemon juice and

olive oil, traditionally. Paula Wolfaerts cookbooks on the

Meditteranean have lots of terrific recipes. The recipe below came

from a Lebanese tourist site.

 

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Lebanese FATTOUSH

1/2lb. Flat bread (Arab bread) toasted and broken into small pieces

2 1/2 lbs. chopped cucumbers or the heart of medium lettuce cut into

small pieces

2 lbs. tomatoes, cut into small pieces

10 oz. green onions finely chopped

6 oz. olive oil

8 1/2 oz. juice of sour pomegranate or juice of summac

1 clove of garlic mashed with salt

2 tbs. salt

1 bunch of purslane (or parsley)

 

 

 

 

Toast and bread bread into small pieces. Sprinkle cold water over it.

Chop all the vegetables and add them to the bread. Mix well. Add

mashed garlic, juice and oil and toss well. Serve on a platter and

garnish with pomegranate seed and a little chopped onions and

tomatoes.

 

Art of Lebanese Cooking

Source: Lebanese Recipes from travel-to-lebanon.com

Formatted by Chupa Babi in MC

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Michelle's FatFree FATTOUSH

Dressing:

1/2 cup water or light vegetable broth

1 tsp cornstarch

1/3 cup lemon juice

2 cloves garlic

2 tsp sumac

salt and fresh ground pepper to taste

Salad:

1 head romaine, washed, dried and torn into small pieces

1 med cucumber, diced

2 large firm tomatoes, diced

4 green onions, chopped

1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped

1/4 cup fresh mint, chopped

1 green bell pepper, seeded and chopped

1 cup purslane, chopped

1/2 cup arugula or watercress leaves, chopped

pita bread, toasted and broken into bite size pieces

 

 

Mix water or broth with cornstarch in small saucepan over high heat

until thickened. Remove from heat and add remaining dressing

ingredients and let cook in refrigerator.

 

Mix salad ingredients in large bowl. Add salad dressing and toasted

pita and mix well. Serve immediately.

 

Salad can also be eaten sandwich-style inside pitas.

 

kwvegan vegan

This recipe uses two unusual ingredients: sumac and purslane. Sumac,

usually sold ground, is ground red berries and used in Middle Eastern,

particularly Lebanese, cooking. Puslane is a weed, yes, but makes a

nice salad green. Slightly succulent with a lemony flavor. I find

it at farmer's markets.

 

Fattoush is a Lebanese salad, good for hot weather. This recipe is

from Bryanna Clark's new book _The Almost No Fat Holiday Cookbook_

and is part of the menu she offers for Eid-Ul-Fitr, the end of Muslim

Ramadan.

 

From Michelle Dick for fatfree.com

Formatted by Chupa Babi in MC: 0815.03

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[Guest guest]

> Is this the samekind of sumac from trees in the eastern US? Does

> anyone know the medicinal benefits of sumac?

 

 

I think it's related, but not sure if it's quite the same - I know

back in NY where I grew up the sumac there was posion sumac.

 

http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/biomed/spice/index.cfm?displayID=24

 

ah ha! Not the same:

http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.html?Rhus_cor.html