Fattoush
A salad of crisp leaves, tomato, cucumber, radish and herbs with shards of toasted or fried flatbread, in a sharp dressing of lemon and sumac.
What makes it fattoush
- Pieces of flatbread, toasted or fried until crisp.
- Sumac in the dressing, and on top.
- Whatever's fresh — tomato, cucumber, radish, lettuce, mint, parsley, purslane.
Where it comes from
The name comes from fatt, to crumble — the family of dishes built on broken bread, a thrifty way to use up yesterday's. It began as a country salad and became a mezze staple, with purslane in it when it's in season.
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