The Best Fattoush Salad
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The Best Fattoush Salad
Description
The Best Fattoush Salad uses fresh romaine lettuce cut into bite-size pieces combined with quartered cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced radishes, and red onions. Pita chips toasted until crisp add a crunchy contrast to the greens. The dressing is a blend of lemon juice and pomegranate molasses for acidity and sweetness, minced garlic, kosher salt, sumac, and dried mint, whisked together with olive oil to emulsify and coat the ingredients evenly.
This salad balances bright, tart, and herbal notes with varied textures, from crisp lettuce and radish to crunchy pita chips. The addition of fresh mint chiffonade adds a refreshing herbaceous quality, specialized by the sumac's distinctive lemony aroma. It is served tossed and dusted with extra sumac, dried and fresh mint, and freshly ground black pepper to enhance the layers of flavor.
Fattoush Salad complements Middle Eastern and Mediterranean meals, functioning well as a light starter, side dish, or a refreshing accompaniment to grilled foods. The pita chips provide an added crunch making the salad more substantial.
Ingredients
- lemon juice of 1
- 1 teaspoon pomegranate molasses
- 1 garlic minced or pressed, small clove
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons dried mint divided, crushed
- 2 teaspoons sumac , divided
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 romaine lettuce chopped into 2-inch pieces, hearts
- 1 cup cherry tomato quartered
- ½ red onion , thinly sliced
- 2 radish thinly sliced
- Pita chips toasted
- 10 mint leaf sliced in chiffonade, fresh
- black pepper freshly ground
Instructions
- For the vinaigrette, in a small bowl whisk the lemon, pomegranate molasses, garlic, salt, 1 teaspoon of the dried mint, 1 teaspoon of the sumac and olive oil until it is emulsified.
- For the salad, toss the romaine, tomatoes, onion, radishes, and pita chips in a salad bowl. Dress the salad with the vinaigrette and toss. Dust with the remaining sumac, dried mint, fresh mint, and freshly ground black pepper.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 4Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 121 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 121kcal | 6% |
| Carbohydrates | 6g | 2% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 11g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 8g | 40% |
| Sodium | 593mg | 25% |
| Potassium | 268mg | 6% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 3g | 6% |
| Vitamin A | 5236IU | 105% |
| Vitamin C | 13mg | 14% |
| Calcium | 38mg | 4% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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