Fattoush

Ingredients

• 2 tomatoes, chopped into chunks      

• ¼ cucumber, deseeded and sliced

• ½ red onion, sliced

• 1 small head romaine lettuce, shredded

• handful mint leaves, roughly chopped

• handful parsley leaves, roughly chopped

• 2 pitta breads

• 1 tsp sumac

• ½ garlic clove, crushed

• 2 tbsp red wine vinegar

• 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

• juice ½ lemon

Preparation

1-    The night before, toss together all the salad ingredients except for the pitta bread and sumac. Make up the dressing and season to taste. Leave these separate until the morning.

2-    The next morning, toast the pitta breads until lightly golden. When cool, tear into pieces and combine with the salad and dressing. Spoon into 2 plastic boxes and sprinkle over the sumac.

 L.Razzok