Fattoush Salad makes a frequent appearance on the Middle Eastern dinner table.

Fattoush is a Lebanese bread salad made from toasted or fried pieces of khubz(a type of Lebanese bread) combined with mixed greens and other vegetables, like radishes and tomatoes. Fattoush belongs to the family of dishes known as fattat, which use stale flatbread as a base.

A simple chopped salad dressed in a zesty lime vinaigrette. Homemade pita chips serve as croutons! day-old pita inspired an entire food genre known as “Fatta,” or “Fatteh.” In fatteh dishes, like the fattoush salad, leftover pita is given a second chance as a main ingredient.

How do you make a simple and tasty Fattoush salad? Here’s how:

If you were to order a basic fattoush salad at a local restaurant, you likely find: cucumbers, tomatoes, purslane leaves (or lettuce), radish, and green onions.  Fresh herbs like parsely or mint, or both. A simple zesty vinaigrette and a generous dash of sumac spice give fattoush its distinctly complex flavor.

What are you waiting for? Go try it!!!