Fattoush Salad
Serves 4
Cooking time: 15 min
2 cups romaine lettuce, torn
2 tomato
2 small cucumbers, peeled
1 green pepper, or combo of green, orange, and yellow
3 green onions, minced
15 mint leaves chopped roughly
¼ cup parsley chopped roughly
1-2 cups pita bread, toasted until crispy and broken in pieces
Classic Lemon Vinaigrette:
¼ cup lemon juice
¼ cup olive oil
salt to taste
1-2 Tbsp sumac
pinch Aleppo pepper
Cut vegetables into bite size pieces and put into large bowl. Toast or dry pita in oven. Prepare dressing and toss all together. Decorate edge of serving plate with lettuce leaves and lemon slices.
Recipe courtesy of the Iraqi woman and Catholic Charities Maine Refugee & Immigration Services. Thank you!
