A Great Tabouli Recipe
Here is one great tabouli recipe for you. Tabouli or tabouleh is an awesome Arabic/Mediterranean salad. It is extremely popular in Israel and goes really good with hummus, tahini, Falafel, shawarma, kabobs etc. Make sure the ingredients are fresh and that you chop the vegetables as small as humanly possible.
The result of this taboulleh recipe should look somewhat like this picture by Roland.
Ingredients – 3 servings aprox.
- 1 cup fine cracked wheat (known as burghul)
- 2 medium sized tomatoes
- 2 small cucumbers (sometimes called Persian cucumbers)
- 1 cup finely chopped mint
- ½ cup finely chopped parsley
- 3 finely sliced spring onions
- ½ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ cup olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- ⅓ tsp pepper
How to make tabouli from the above
- Cover the burghul wheat with boiling water and let it stand for about 15-20 minutes until all the water is absorbed.
- Add to the wheat all other above ingredients.
- Mix well until it looks similar to the picture I added.
- Serve the tabouli somewhat chilled.
There you go – if you ever wanted to know how to make taboulleh – try this awesome recipe and enjoy!
Some more tabouli. picture by Sahua.
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