After gallivanting around the country for the majority of June, I’ve decided that it’s time to get back to some healthy eating habits and enjoy all of the great produce that is available during the summer. Now don’t get me wrong, I love eating out at fabulous restaurants, but sometimes a girl just needs some home cooked meals! So to kick off this spurt of healthy eating, I made a Fatoush Salad. Have you ever heard or had a Fatoush. It’s kinda my new favorite word?
While were were in Marfa, TX a few weeks ago, we stopped by a food truck that made some of the most amazing Mediterranean food ever. The stand out favorite from that day was definitely the Fatoush Salad. It’s pretty much a Lebanese chopped salad and loaded with romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, red onions, mint, feta cheese, toasted pita chips and it’s traditionally served with tahini and a drizzle of yogurt on top. For my Fatoush, I opted for a dollop of homemade garlic hummus rather than the tahini sauce because well, I really like hummus.
Once everything is piled high into a bowl, it gets a lemon-sumac dressing, a sprinkle of freshly ground pepper and then it’s ready to go.
The stand out part of this salad is the mint. I don’t know about you, but typically i don’t add mint to my salads – but this addition was a welcomed change and really made the salad pop!
Fatoush Salad
Ingredients
- 1 whole wheat pita pocket cut into cubes
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 head romaine lettuce
- 4 green onion thinly sliced
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
- 4 Persian cucumbers sliced
- 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup red onion chopped
- 1/2 cup feta cheese
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
- 1/3 cup olive oil plus 1 tbsp
- 2 lemons juiced
- 1/2 tsp Sumac
- Dollop of Garlic Hummus
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combined the chopped pita with the paprika and 1 tbsp olive oil on a small baking sheet. Place into the oven and toast for 10-15 minutes until the pita is crisp. Remove from oven and cool.
- In a large bowl toss together the lettuce, onion, tomatoes, cucumber, mint, red onion and feta.
- In another smaller bowl, combine the salt, pepper, remaining olive oil, lemon juice and sumac and whisk into a dressing.
- Combine the dressing with the salad and gently combine until lightly dressed. Divide and serve with a dollop of hummus and more freshly cracked pepper if needed.
I love the ingredients all laid out on the cutting board…they all look so BAM poppin’ off my screen FRESH and lovely!
Never heard of this… but I’m liking it!
I love fatoush salad! I’d never heard of it until I was visiting my husband’s family in Kansas, but I’ve yet to forget it. I wonder why it seems to always appear in the midwest?
I’ve never had fatoush salad…and to find it on a food truck in Marfa…who knew?!
This is one of my very favorite salads in the world! Love the idea of putting hummus on it.
I married a Lebanese guy and love the culture and the food of Lebanon including this salad! It is a Lebanese peasant salad because it used stale arabic bread, I love the flavors especially if the tomatoes are picked directly from the garden in summer!
Yum, what a great summer meal! I need to get my hands on some sumac ASAP!
Such a great looking summer salad!
This hits home for me. I am part Lebanese on my Dad’s side so I am forever in love with these flavors!
Love fattoush salad! That reminds me to make it!
This salad sounds divine, Gaby! Love the toasted pita chips here.
Mmmm. This is another ‘my kind of meal’. I love the flavored pita.
I’ve had this salad before at a restaurant in my town! I really loved it and have been wanting the recipe ever since! Great idea to add hummus!
Oh, yay, I was addicted to fattoush after my trip to Lebanon last year. Glad to see our Marfa inspired such a delish recipe!
The name alone makes me want to try it so I can walk around saying I made a Fatoush, I made a Fatoush!
This is the perfect kind of cleansing salad for summertime. Beautiful, Gaby!
I’ve never heard of it but it sure looks delicious.
I love that word! Fatoush! My kind of salad 🙂
Lovely salad and really great photos!
Love your version of fatoush… and how’s that juice fast going?
The lemon sumac dressing sounds perfect with this salad!
I love this salad and the photo’s are so beautiful! Yum, yum!
I always crave fresh vegetables after traveling! I dream about fresh veggies when I’m living in hotel rooms for weeks at a time. *Literally*.
Fattoush is my FAVORITE! There is a kebob place by my parents who make the BEST fattoush salad. Mom and I hunted all over the place to find sumac – the cheapest was to buy it as a Mediterranean or Lebanese restaurant, but Penzy’s sells it too.
Looks delicious! feta makes such a difference, doesn’t it?
This is such a wonderful recipe! I try to cook vegan meals as much as I can and it’s so nice to make something that’s delicious even without the cheese. The mint really brings everything together. Now I just have to track down Sumac (I’ve looked all over my city)!
Wonderful salad! Tastes very (even better?) the second day. But don’t add the pita until just before eating, or it gets soggy. Sumac is hard to find – not at Whole Foods, TJ’s, Fresh Market or Earth Fare, but a local spice shop had it. Can always get it at Amazon – a lot cheaper, too.