Tabula salad with couscous - how to prepare a salad tabbouleh, a step by step recipe photos

I often cook one of the most popular salads in the Arab kitchen - Tabula. Recipe - simply nowhere. The main thing you need to stock the right products. It is made with bulgur wheat groats or couscous. He is friends with all the great dishes of meat. It is prepared without meat and without mayonnaise. Therefore, excellent for cooking in the post and vegetarians. Step by step recipe decorated with photos and will help you to cook in the kitchen delicious Arabic dishes. ????

For salad, we need:

• 80 g of fresh parsley (or 2 beam);
• 5-6 leaves of fresh mint;
• 3 pieces of tomato of medium size;
• 75 grams of cereal bulgur (or couscous);
• 150 ml of water + 2 tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice (for bulgur);
• 2-3 green onion pen;
• 1/3 tsp shallow pink salt (or salt).;
• a small pinch of black pepper;
• 2 tbsp. spoon of lemon juice + 3 tbsp. olive oil EV.

How to make tabbouleh salad with bulgur or couscous

To prepare a salad with the start of soaking grains. Put it in a bowl or saucepan and pour hot water mixed with lemon juice.

Bulgur swell reserve at least one hour. If you have no time to withstand bulgur an hour, bring to a boil the soaked bulgur and leave it for a while, yet will prepare the other ingredients for the salad. So, after a time drain the water through a colander. Our bulgur is ready for the salad.

Parsley leaves shooting from the stems, washed and dried in the dryer. Or dry them on a towel, but be sure to remove the remaining moisture. Similarly we proceed with mint leaves. Next, finely chop the leaves and put them in a salad bowl.

Tomatoes cut in half and, using a dessert spoon, remove the midway. She's in a salad will not be applied. The remaining tomatoes cut into small cubes and put them in a salad bowl with the herbs.

Now comes all bulgur.

Very finely chopped onion feathers and mix it with the salad. Then, salt, pepper, lemon juice and olive oil was added to the salad tabulates and stir.

Before you put in Tabula serving salad, try it on the amount of salt. If you are satisfied, we shift it into serving salad bowl and put in the refrigerator, so that it cools. Before serving, it should stir again.