Tabbouleh

ato
Tabbouleh is a lebaneese salad. It is one of my favourite salad. It was fun doing some experiments to find the real taste of tabbouleh since I never saw nor taste it. My reference was through some recipes on the internet and of course, Karim, as he is a lebaneese :-). You may find many variations of tabbouleh and yes I think you can make your own variations of it. But never do that in front of a true lebaneese for he/she will not like it! :-) The tabbouleh is using olive oil, lemon and salt for its sauce. It's typical medditeranean salad sauce, I think. You will find a similar taste in Italy too. Salt is used to balance the sour taste of the lemon, but it supposed to be... lemony (that's what Karim told me, so better listen to the old guy :P). Happy trying!

Ingredients:
Bulghur
Cucumber
Tomato
Mint leaves
Flat peterseli leaves
Lemon
Olive oil
Salt

How to make:
1. Chop cucumber and tomato, make them tiny cubicle ones. Put them on bulghur so the water from the cucumber and tomato will absorbed by the bulghur and they become soft and yummy to eat. Bulghur is very healthy. Basically, it's a chopped wheat seed. It's expensive in Indonesia, you can only find it in imported section or.. a middle east or south asian store (some said that there is a nice Indian store in Fatmawati, but I haven't found it yet).

2. Put the sauce. Put the salad in the refrigerator.