Tabbouleh (lebanese style)
Yield: 4 Servings
Ingredients:
- 2/3 c Bulgur
- 2 c Water
- 2/3 c Minced red onion
- 1 ts Salt
- 1/2 ts Ground allspice
- 1/2 c Finely chopped fresh mint -leaves or 1 tb dried -crumbled
- 2 1/2 c Finely chopped fresh parsley -leaves (preferably flat- -leafed)
- 1/2 c Finely chopped scallion
- 1/4 c Fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 c Extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 c Finely-diced seeded seedless
Instructions:
-cucumber Put bulgur in a heatproof bowl. Bring water to a boil and pour over bulgur. Let bulgur stand 1 hour. While bulgur is soaking in a large bowl stir together onion salt allspice and dried mint if using (do not add fresh mint now) and let stand 30 minutes. Drain bulgur in a sieve pressing hard to extract as much water as possible and add to onion mixture with remaining ingredients including fresh mint if using. Toss salad well and season with salt and pepper. Appeared in the Jan 1995 issue of Gourmet magazine.
