- Fattoush
Fattoush (
Arabic : فتوش ) is aLevant ine salad made from several gardenvegetable s and toasted or fried pieces ofpita bread. Fattoush salad allows cooks to use seasonal produce by mixing different vegetables and herbs according to taste, and also to make use of pitas that have gone stale. The vegetables are cut into relatively large pieces compared toTabbouleh which requires ingredients to be finely chopped.Sumac is usually used to give Fattoush its sour taste.Etymology
"Fattūsh" is made of the
Arabic root "F-T-T" "crush" and theSlavic diminutive suffix "-ūsh". Coining words this way was common in Syrian Arabic as well as in other dialects of Arabic.Ingredients
Primary ingredients
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Tomato
*Lettuce
*Cucumber
*Onion
*Sumac
* Mint
*Pita - toasted or fried
*Salt
*Olive oil
*Lemon Juice Optional ingredients
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Feta cheese
*Parsley
*Carrot
* Red pepper
*Green pepper
*Red Cabbage
*Black olive
*Black pepper
*Garlic
*Pomegranate Arils ee also
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Syrian cuisine
*Tabbouleh
*Sumac External links
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2006/07/26/fattoush/ Fattoush recipe example.]
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