Colourful, bright and refreshingly delicious, you can not go past this popular Lebanese fattoush salad recipe. We adore the crunchy homemade fried pita chips and zesty sumac dressing all mixed in with chopped seasonal fresh vegetables to create the perfect easy side salad.
Cut pita bread into small triangles or small squares. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add cut pita bread into oil and fry until golden brown. This will take about 3-4 minutes. Remove and rest on paper towels.
Wash and roughly cut romaine (cos) lettuce.
Chop cucumber into small pieces.
Cut tomatoes into quarters.
Slice and cut bell peppers into bite size pieces.
Wash and trim radishes. Finely slice them.
Thinly slice white onion.
Roughly chop parsley and mint.
Salad Dressing
In a small mixing bowl, add olive oil, lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, sumac, dried mint together.
Season with salt and pepper.
Whisk until combined.
Assembly
In a large bowl, add all the salad ingredients except for fried pita bread.
Pour dressing on top and toss to combine.
Add fried pita bread just before serving and gently toss again.
Serve.
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Notes
Use the freshest ingredients you can find for fattoush salad.
Fry the pita bread in batches if you need to. Do not overcrowd the skillet. Do watch the pita bread as they cook very quickly.
If you can not find sumac, you can add little allspice, cinnamon and increase the lemon juice in the fattoush dressing.
If you don’t have pomegranate molasses, you can omit it from the salad dressing.
Keep fried pita bread separate until the salad is ready to serve.