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Tabouleh Recipe
by Loupgrru

Tabouleh

A salad from the Mediterranean, good for days when it's too hot to cook or eat a lot. Bulgar wheat, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, mint, tomato, cucumber, green onions.

Rating: 4/5
Avg. 4/5 1 vote
Prep time: Middle eastern
  Servings: 2 Servings

Goes Well With: Crusty bread, White Wine

Wine and Drink Pairings: gruner veltlander

Ingredients

  • Bulgar wheat.
  • Olive oil
  • Cucumber
  • Tomato
  • Lemon
  • Garlic
  • Green onions
  • Fresh mint
  • Salt

Directions

  1. Prep:
  2. heat one cup water.
  3. put slightly less than 1 C of bulgar wheat in large bowl.
  4. add 1/4 t salt to the wheat.
  5. when water boils, pour it over salted bulgar wheat and set aside
  6. pour 1/4 C olive oil into small bowl, use liquid measure.
  7. Squeeze juice of one half lemon into small bowl.
  8. Chop 1-2 T of fresh mint, depending on taste, add to bowl.
  9. Mince two cloves of garlic, add to bowl.
  10. Mix bowl ingredients.
  11. Check bulgar. If it has absorbed all the water, go to next step. If not, give it another 15 minutes or so.
  12. Blend the ingredients of the small bowl (the dressing) with the salted bulgar wheat in the big bowl. You can then put everything back in the small bowl so it won't take up so much room, and let the dressing flavors mix with the salted bulgar in the fridge for one day.
  13. Next day, put the contents of the small bowl back in the big bowl.
  14. Peel and chop a cucumber, add to bowl.
  15. Chop the tomato, add to bowl.
  16. Chop the green onions add to bowl.
  17. Mix it up and eat.