Fattoush

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Prepare salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and spinach.
Add tabbouleh and feta to the salad. Top the salad with sauteed vegetables, and add a side of hummus and bread to bring it all together.
To assemble the fattoush, you will need baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, red onion, as well as, clockwise from top left, crumbled feta, hummus, sliced mushrooms, marinated artichokes and tabbouleh.
MPN/Courtesy photos Sauté mushrooms, artichoke hearts in balsamic vinegar in a hot pan for about 5 minutes. MPN/Courtesy photos
MPN/Courtesy photo Hale Cole-Tucker of Maddie's Bagel and Eatery in Salem, N.H.., makes fattoush, a main course salad based in Levantine-cuisine. MPN/Courtesy photo

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September 12, 2012

Fattoush

A main course salad

Anonymous Gloucester Daily Times The Gloucester Daily Times Wed Sep 12, 2012, 04:44 PM EDT

Fattoush, meaning “everything that is fresh” in Arabic, couldn’t be a more fitting name for this salad.

Fattoush originates from Levantine cuisine, which primarily focuses on using fresh, seasonal ingredients such as grape tomatoes, baby spinach, and artichoke hearts. Levantine cuisine also includes more traditional items such as hummus and tabbouleh, which is made from bulghur wheat and parsley.

Maddie’s Bagel and Eatery of Salem, N.H., makes this salad more familiar by adding some mushrooms and slice of a fresh French baguette.

“This salad is truly a fantastic feast,” says Hale Cole-Tucker, owner of Maddie’s.

Fattoush can be personalized by what is readily available and in season. You can create a more traditional salad by swapping the baguette for pita bread and adding other ingredients such as olive oil and mint.

The light, crisp vegetables paired with the sautéed mushrooms and artichokes create a refreshing flavorful salad that is also a healthy meal.

Fattoush

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup baby spinach

3 to 5 slices of red onion

3 to 5 slices cucumber

3 to 5 grape tomatoes

2 mushrooms, sliced

2 artichoke hearts, marinated and quartered

1 1/12 tablespoons balsamic vinaigrette

1/4 cup feta cheese

1/2 cup tabbouleh