This delicious salad will give us heaps of the herbs we should be eating more of in our diet – mainly parsley and garlic.
It is delicious and good to eat in a wrap or as a salad for lunch.
Tabouli
1 cup Quinoa
2 cups water
1/2 cucumber, chopped
2 small tomatoes, chopped or 1 big tomato
1 spring onion
10 mint leaves – finely chopped
1 cup fresh chopped parsley
1 clove garlic, minced (optional)
Dressing:
2 Tablespoons of fresh lemon juice
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 sprinkling of pepper
2 pinches of salt, or to taste
Boil the Quinoa in water for about 20minutes. When it’s ready, drain any excess water, if necessary, and rinse thoroughly.
Meantime, prepare the vegetables for the salad and mix the dressing ingredients together. Set aside.
Stir the quinoa, other salad ingredients, and dressing together in a medium bowl.
Serve chilled or at room temperature.
This recipe was taken from this website:
http://www.greatpartyrecipes.com/tabouli-recipe.html
Enjoy ladies!
Its a good recipe but never use water in tabuli and never soak the tabuli in water no matter hot or cold. Just rinse the tabuli thoroughly and squeeze it dry.. You want the tabuli wheat to absorb the juices from all the produce.. That is how it ends up fluffing up.. And that is how you get a excellent taste from it. Everything melds together perfectly.. Using water is a big NO NO NO
Sorry Follett, but in this case you are not correct. In order for it to be gluten free, this recipe is using quinoa, not burghul wheat so of course it does need the water. It needs to be rinsed, if it hasn’t been pre-rinsed to remove the bitter saponins which coat the outside of the grains and it needs 2 cups of water for every cup of quinoa to cook it correctly.
Thanks Hun. I changed it a few months back and didn’t actually ever make it! It used to be made with the burghul wheat :) but I wanted it to be gluten free. I shall update accordingly. :)