Danielle's fattoush salad
25 min
Freshly fried pitta bread, lettuce, peppers, onion, tomato, cucumber and feta cheese are topped with a mint and and lemon dressing in this traditional fattoush salad.
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Ingredients
Serves: 5
- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
- 2 pitta breads, cut into 2cm pieces
- 100g shredded romaine lettuce
- 1 green pepper, cut into bite-size pieces
- 1 large beef tomato, cut into bite-size pieces
- 1/2 red onion, sliced
- 1/2 cucumber, cut into bite-size pieces
- 65g feta cheese, chopped
- 2 tablespoons freshly chopped mint
- 1 tablespoon freshly chopped flat-leaf parsley
- Dressing
- 60ml extra-virgin olive oil, or more to taste
- 1 lemon, juiced, or more to taste
- 1 clove garlic, grated
- 1/2 teaspoon Greek seasoning or dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon ground sumac (optional)
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:5min ›
Ready in:25min
- Heat grapeseed oil in a large pan over medium-low heat. Cook and stir pitta bread pieces in hot oil until golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer bread pieces to a plate lined with kitchen roll.
- Stir romaine lettuce, tomato, red onion, cucumber, feta cheese, mint and parsley together in a large bowl.
- Whisk olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, seasoning, sumac, salt and black pepper together in a bowl until completely combined. Pour olive oil mixture and pitta bread pieces onto lettuce mixture; toss to coat.
