How To Make Tabouleh Salad
I don’t know how much Lebanese food you have eaten, but my take away is that the world should be eating more Lebanese food! And, everyone should know how to make tabouleh salad. Unfortunalety for me, I have never been to Lebanon to eat it, but I have experienced what I know to be absolutely authentic Lebanese food in Dubai. How they get that hummus so smooth is really magical. And those fresh pitas…WOW! Not to mention the tabouleh salad! The tabouleh salads have a great nuttiness from the wheat and such fragrant herbaciousness from the parsley and mint that it is impossible not to enjoy it. Plus, there is hardly any cooking involved.
How To Make Tabouleh Salad – The Bulgar Wheat
Tabouleh is also known as bulgar wheat. When you buy it dry in the store, more often than not, it is parboiled already so all you have to do is pour some hot water on top of it, let the grain get tender, drain and dress.
Water will always do the trick, but you can imagine what the use of nice vegetable stock or chicken stock will do. There are many ways to get flavor into dishes!
How To Make Tabouleh Salad – The Dressing
Tabouleh salad is a light dish that is easy to put toghether. The additions include onion, parsley, mint, cucumber and tomato. To dress it, a simple lemon vinaigrette is used. In fact, it is not even a vinaigrette because I don’t think it is even pre-mixed. The bulgur is drizzled with olive oil then drizzled with fresh lemon juice. So little effort for very delicious food. Now, if fresh pita were only that easy.
To make it a little easier, the ‘How To Make Tabouleh Salad’ video is below and the full recipe follows.
- 1 cup of Bulger wheat
- boiling water
- 1 small bunch of parsley
- 1 small bunch of mint
- ½ of a medium cucumber
- ¼ cup of olive oil
- 1 juice of one lemon
- salt and pepper
- In a large bowl, cover the bulgar wheat with boiling water. Let the bulgar wheat soak until it’s tender. Drain the excess water.
- Wash and finely chop the parsley.
- Wash and finely chopped mint.
- Dice the cucumber into a small dice.
- Add the cucumber and herbs to the tabouleh Mix well.
- Drizzle the salad with oil and lemon juice to taste. Season with salt pepper. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
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