Crispy Pita Fattoush Salad 🥗🇱🇧

Description

Fresh, crunchy salad piled with juicy tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, and crispy pita shards, all coated in a lemony sumac dressing. 🫒

Hook
Toast pita until shatteringly crisp, toss with vibrant chopped veggies, and drench everything in a tangy garlic and sumac dressing that tastes like pure sunshine. ✨

Ingredients

• Salad base
• 🥒 Persian cucumbers, small dice: 300 g (2 cups / 10.6 oz)
• 🍅 Ripe tomatoes, small dice (or cherry tomatoes halved): 250 g (1¾ cups / 8.8 oz)
• 🧅 Red onion, very thin slices: 40 g (¼ cup / 1.4 oz)
• 🌶️ Green bell pepper, small dice: 80 g (½ cup / 2.8 oz)
• 🌿 Fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped: 20 g (½ cup / 0.7 oz)
• 🌿 Fresh mint leaves, finely chopped: 10 g (¼ cup / 0.35 oz)
• 🥬 Romaine lettuce, thinly sliced: 80 g (2 cups / 2.8 oz)
• Crispy pita
• 🥙 Lebanese-style pita breads, 2 cm squares: 80 g (2 small pitas / 2.8 oz)
• 🫒 Olive oil: 15 ml (1 tbsp / 0.5 fl oz)
• 🧂 Fine salt: 1 g (¼ tsp / 0.04 oz)
• Dressing
• 🍋 Fresh lemon juice: 45 ml (3 tbsp / 1.5 fl oz)
• 🫒 Extra-virgin olive oil: 45 ml (3 tbsp / 1.5 fl oz)
• 🌸 Ground sumac: 8 g (1 tbsp / 0.28 oz)
• 🧄 Garlic, very finely grated: 6 g (2 cloves / 0.21 oz)
• 🧂 Fine salt: 3–4 g (½–¾ tsp / 0.11–0.14 oz), to taste
• ⚫ Freshly ground black pepper: 1 g (½ tsp / 0.04 oz)
• 🍯 Pomegranate molasses (optional, for sweetness): 10 ml (2 tsp / 0.34 fl oz)

Preparation

1. 1️⃣ Prep the vegetables
2. Add cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, bell pepper, parsley, mint, and romaine to a large salad bowl. Chill in the fridge while you prepare the crispy pita and dressing.
3. 2️⃣ Toast the pita
4. Heat the oven to 190°C (375°F). Toss pita squares with olive oil and salt, spread in a single layer on a baking sheet, and bake 7–8 min, stirring once, until golden and crisp. Let cool completely so they stay crunchy.
5. 3️⃣ Whisk the dressing
6. In a small bowl whisk lemon juice, olive oil, sumac, garlic, salt, black pepper, and pomegranate molasses (if using) until the dressing looks slightly thick and emulsified. Taste and adjust salt and lemon so it is bright and tangy.
7. 4️⃣ Toss just before serving
8. Right before serving, pour most of the dressing over the chilled vegetables and toss well so every piece is coated. Add crispy pita on top and gently fold it through, adding the remaining dressing if the salad looks dry.
9. 5️⃣ Rest briefly
10. Let the fattoush sit 5–10 min so the pita softens just at the edges but stays crunchy in the center, then serve immediately.

Total Time

⏱️ Prep: 25 min
🔥 Cook/Bake: 8 min
😌 Rest: 10 min
🕒 Total: 43 min

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