Tabouleh

The delicious middle-eastern parsley salad. Tabouli, Tabouleh, from Lebanon to Persia to Turkey to Israel, they all have their own variations. 

BASIC TABOULEH:

a head of curly parsley, chopped fine.

1 tomato, chopped fine.

1 cucumber, chopped fine.

1 red onion, chopped fine.

1/4 cup bulgur or cracked wheat [some people like more, some people like less. i like emphasis on the salad, not the wheat.

vinaigrette: 1/4 cup lemon juice, 1 tablespoon olive oil, salt, pepper, i like to add garlic, with some sumac and cumin. 

I'm not a huge fan of bulgur. So, there are varieties of things you can you instead. 

Wild Rice Tabouleh

Fattoush [toasted pita or lavash]

My personal favourite is chickpeas. 

Pasta. Makes a killer pasta salad. 

Couscous. 

DRESS IT UP!

with feta cheese. 

Put it in a pita, or Doner sandwich, or shawarma. 

VICKY'S VERY RANDOM INVENTED TABOULEH: [and my favourite]

instead of bulgur, chickpeas.

crumbled feta cheese.

garlic in the vinaigrette.

some crunchy lavash

fried chorizo. yeah, don't ask. but it's amazing.

You can use Quinoa too. it seems to be call the rage these days, meh.