Fattoush (middle Eastern Pita Bread And Tomato Salad)

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 large pita breads, torn into bite size pieces
• 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and diced
• salt
• 3 medium tomatoes, seeded and diced
• 6 green onions, sliced
• 1 green bell pepper, diced
• 1/4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley
• 1/3 cup chopped mint leaf
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves (coriander)
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 pre-heat oven to 375°f.
• 2 place the pieces of pita bread on a baking sheet in a single layer and bake in the oven until they are dry (about 10 - 15 min). let cool.
• 3 spread out the diced cucumber on paper toweling, and sprinkle with salt. let stand about 15 minutes, then place in a colander and rinse the salt off. pat dry.
• 4 combine the cucumber, tomatoes, green onions, bell pepper, parsley, mint, and cilantro in a large bowl.
• 5 combine the garlic, lemon juice and olive oil in a small bowl and whisk together. season the mixture with salt and pepper and whisk again.
• 6 pour the liquid mixture over the vegetable mixture and toss to coat. toss in the pita bread pieces and serve.