recently i discovered a tasty, simple wonderful dish, cheap and easy to do and now i'm eating it a lot:
bulgur salad
you need:
- bulgur
- parsley
- fresh mint
- garlic
- olive oil
- tomatoes
- spring onions
- lemon
so first the mise en place:
take the garlic, cut it in tiny pieces, pour some salt above it and press it with a knife so that you get a paste like thing, the salt will take the fluid of the garlic. put it in a vessel, pour olive oil into it and lemon juice. some salt, that will be the dressing.
cut the tomatoes in little pieces, try out the tomatoes you prefer, i prefer egg tomatoes or meat tomatoes but also cherry tomatoes do well, cut the green parts of the spring onions and cut the parley and mint.
boil about as many water as bulgur, like 150g bulgur and 150ml water. you can also use vegetable stock instead, gives more flavour, and just pour the water on the bulgur when it's cooking. stir a bit and let it rest a little.
put the tomatoes and the onions in when the bulgur is still warm. pour the oil with the lemon and garlic in and add th eparsley and mint.
et voila!, a tasty salad. 200g of bulgur are enough for 4 people i would say.
then make your own hummus, even more easy than the salad.
you need:
- chickpeas
- tahin, sesame paste
- cumin
just put the chick peas in a vessel, add some tahin and puree it. spice it up with cumin ..and then you can start to add what you like..garlic, lemon, joghurt...
and the best combination is some arabian flatbread with hummus and the bulgur salad.
bon appetit!
