Recipe: Perfect Tabouli Salad

Recipe: Perfect Tabouli Salad Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Tabouli Salad. Tabouli is likely the topmost famed Mediterranean/Middle Eastern salad there is. Because it is now sold in most large supermarkets around the world, I feel compelled to dispel one thing: the "star of the show," so to speak, in a tabouli recipe is not the bulgur. The idea is to have a little bulgur with the salad, not a little salad with your bulgur.

Place bulgur in a large heat-safe bowl and cover with boiling water.

This salad is light and flavorful and chock full of veggies that you can pull from your garden–tomatoes, cucumbers, and green onions.

Add lots of parsley and mint and a nice splash of olive oil and lemon juice and that's it.

You can cook Tabouli Salad using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Tabouli Salad

1. It’s 2 bunches of parsley finely chopped.

2. Prepare 4 of Roma tomatoes finely chopped.

3. Prepare 1/2 bunch of fresh mint finely chopped.

4. It’s 1-2 of garlic cloves, minced (optional).

5. Prepare 1/2 cup of extra fine bulgar.

6. It’s of Some flaxseed (optional).

7. Prepare 4 of Onions (1 white and 3 green onions very finely chopped.

8. It’s 1 of cucumber finely chopped.

9. It’s 4 of Small to medium heads of radish finely chopped.

10. You need 2 of lemons juice.

11. Prepare 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil.

12. It’s Dash of black pepper and cinnamon.

13. It’s of Romain lettuce leaves washed and dried to serve/decorate with.

14. Prepare of Salt to your taste.

15. It’s of voilà, bon appétit.

Chill before serving to bring out the flavors.

Tabouli Salad or Tabbouleh is a traditional Mediterranean (Middle Eastern) side dish.

Mainly, bulgur wheat (cracked wheat), a few cups of finely chopped veggies and herbs like mint and parsley are added to it.

Tabbouleh salad (tabouli salad) is probably the most popular Mediterranean salad, and is becoming mainstream in American grocery stores all over the country and the world, which is super cool!

Tabouli Salad step by step

1. Wash the bulgur wheat and soak it in water for 5-7 minutes till it drain well..

2. Chop all the vegetables, herbs, green onions and tomatoes draining excess juice if needed..

3. Place all in a large bowl and toss or mix all gently; parsley, mint, tomatoes, lemon juice, garlic, radish, peppers, cinamon, salt and at the end add the olive oil and flaxseed (optional).

4. Taste and adjust seasonings as you like while mixing; serve with lettuce leaves..

One thing that I've noticed though is that in the states, tabbouleh tends to have more bulgur than the traditional recipe calls for.

We think of tabbouleh as a bulgur salad with lots of parsley and mint.

But real Lebanese tabbouleh is a lemony herb salad with a little bit of fine bulgur, an edible garden that you can scoop up with romaine lettuce heart leaves or simply eat with a fork.

Tabouleh salad is a Middle Eastern dish made with bulgur wheat, parsley, onions, tomatoes, olive oil, and lemon juice.

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