Fattoush Salad

Name: Fattoush Salad
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 28 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: internacional
Ingredients: 1 unit romaine lettuce; 3 unit radishes; 2 unit ripe salad tomatoes; 0.5 unit large cucumber; 0.5 unit red onion; 2 clove garlic cloves; 10 unit pitted purple olives; 2 unit green limes; 0.125 cup extra virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley; salt and pepper (to taste); 2 unit pitas (Arabic flatbread); 1 tsp sumac (Arabic spice)

A fresh Arabic salad with lettuce, tomato, cucumber and toasted pita, dressed with lemon and sumac.

Total time: 28 min
Servings: 4
Difficulty: Medium

Ingredients

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1romaine lettucetorn by hand, including the stalks
3radishesunpeeled, thinly sliced
2ripe salad tomatoesdiced
1/2large cucumberpeeled and chopped
1/2red onionsliced into strips
2 clovesgarlic cloveschopped
10pitted purple olivesin pieces
2green limesjuiced
1/8 cupextra virgin olive oilto taste
1 tablespoonchopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
salt and pepperto taste
2pitas (Arabic flatbread)cut into triangles
1 teaspoonsumac (Arabic spice)if available

Instructions

For the dressing: chop the onion and garlic, put them in the lime juice and oil with a pinch of salt, and let macerate for 15-20 minutes.
Toast the pita in the oven with oil over very low heat, 3-4 minutes per side, until golden.
Mix all the ingredients except the lettuce, add the macerated onion, salt and pepper, and let rest for 30 minutes.
Add the lettuce and, when serving, place the pita triangles on top.