Fattoush - Lebanese Bread Salad with Sumac and Pomegranate
The salad that was invented for stale flatbread: the bread is toasted crisp and folded in only at the table so it still crunches. Sumac and pomegranate molasses give the acidity, not vinegar.
Why this dish is good for you
A salad of five raw vegetables that keeps all its vitamin C and stays very light at 133 calories per serving. Toasting the bread instead of frying it holds the fat at about 7 g - the fried version easily doubles that.
Ingredients
- Tomatoes(firm, in wedges)300 g
- Cucumber(in rough pieces, not peeled)250 g
- Radishes(sliced)100 g
- Red onion(thin half-rings)80 g
- Lettuce(torn into broad strips)150 g
- Parsley40 g
- Mint(fresh)15 g
- Flatbread(stale, torn into pieces and toasted)80 g
- Sumac(gives the tart edge - without it there is no fattoush)6 g
- Pomegranate molasses20 g
- Lemon juice40 g
- Olive oil40 g
- Salt4 g
Method
- 1
Tear the flatbread into bite-sized pieces and toast at 180 degrees for ten minutes until crisp and lightly browned. Let it cool.
- 2
Cut the vegetables into rough pieces - fattoush is cut large, unlike the finely diced tabbouleh.
- 3
Rinse the red onion briefly in cold water so it does not dominate.
- 4
Whisk lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, olive oil, sumac and salt into a dressing.
- 5
Toss the vegetables and herbs with the dressing.
- 6
Fold in the toasted bread only just before serving and scatter a little more sumac over the top.
🍂 Sumach ist keine Zitrone
Sumac is the ground berry of a shrub. Its acidity comes from malic and tartaric acid rather than citric - which is why it tastes more astringent and lingers, while lemon is sharp at the front and quickly gone.
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