Fattoush Salad with Indian Ingredients

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Life does not give you all the ingredients but that doesn't stop us from living. You have to create your own recipes.


Ingredients

Dressing: 

  1. 2 lemons squeezed
  2. 1 tablespoon of olive oil 
  3. Lemon zest (In lieu of Sumac)
  4. 1 garlic clove grated or minced
  5. Dried up mint 
  6. Salt
  7. Pepper
  8. Nutmeg (a pinch)

Salad:

  1. 1 medium cucumber
  2. 1 carrot
  3. 1 radish
  4. Few leaves of lettuce - I had iceberg lettuce
  5. 1 Onion
  6. 2-3 Armenian cucumber (Kakdi)
  7. Spring Onion/Scallion
  8. 1/2 or 1 capsicum
  9. 1 tomato
Serves 3-4 people

Instructions

1. First get your partner - your husband, buddy, parents to help you chop :) Then chop the ingredients as you fancy - cubes or long pieces. 
2. I have not added baked or toasted Pita - as I am going to put the salad in a Pita bread and eat with Falafels. You can break a few pieces of Pita add some olive oil a teaspoon or two, salt and pepper and bake it for 10 -12 mins tossing it halfway at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. 
3. To prepare the salad - mix all chopped ingredients with the dressing and add toasted pita's and feta/or paneer. 

Enjoy! 




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