Pure Deliciousness, Fattoush Salad: Spilled Milk # 205

Fried bread, eggplant, a sweet-and-tart vinaigrette—you might just want to eat this whole salad yourself.

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Fattoush is a Lebanese salad made with toasted or fried pieces of khubz.

Khubz is also spelled khoubz, khobez, khubez, or khubooz and, according to my friends from many Levant countries, is the word for bread in Arabic. When you take that fried bread and mix it with greens and vegetables you get a salad that is in a word or two, without peer.

Now here is where it gets interesting. If you have radishes, add them. If you don’t like eggplant, don’t use it. You can see in the video I like equal amounts of all the veg but if you don’t have all the veg around, don’t sweat it.

It’s a SALAD! It’s not a quadratic equation. Can you have a fattoush without tomatoes? I don’t know, and I really don’t care. Chopped veg plus fried flatbread plus lemon-olive oil dressing equals fattoush.

I have been on the road for about five weeks. I came home and the snow cover, what little we had after our warmest winter ever, was gone. The trees in my yard are tipped with green. And that means salad for dinner. I may eat this whole one myself.

Recipe: Fattoush Salad