Fattoush salad with grilled halloumi



Fattoush,this traditional Lebanese salad, is a combination of fresh veggies, flavorful herbs and generally toasted pita bread. This is my all-time favorite salad, it is so fresh, and the use of sumac which has a slightly lemony flavor, bump this salad up to something so good you'll want to make over and over. Sumac is a key ingredient in this salad and really takes the whole experience to an entirely new explosive level. Sumac is a tangy, deep red or burgundy spice derived from the dried berries of the non-poisonous sumac bush. It is used along with lemon or in place of lemon to add a tart, lemony taste to salads, meats, fried eggs, dips as well as added to other spices like in Zaa�tar. You can find Sumac in Middle-Eastern specialty stores or Whole Food Stores. I wanted to use grilled halloumi cheese instead of the pita bread. Halloumi is a firm-textured Cypriot cheese available in all middle-eastern stores. It is fantastic char-grilled. It will toughen if allowed to cool, so it's important to serve it as quickly as possible.




Ingredients (serves 6 to 8): 
1 Roman lettuce coarsely chopped 
1 cup coarsely chopped purslane 
1 bunch of parsley chopped 
 � bunch of mint leaves chopped 
2 small cucumbers peeled and diced 
7 to 8 radishes sliced 
2 tomatoes coarsely diced 
1 onion sliced 
2 green onions thinly sliced 
2 cloves of garlic crushed 
halloumi cheese, cubed then grilled

For the dressing: 
1/4 cup of pomegranate molasses (debs el remmen) 
� cup lemon juice 
2/3 cup olive oil 
� teaspoon paprika 
1 to 2 tbsp sumac 
salt

Arrange all the vegetables in a big salad bowl.
In a small bowl, mix the pomegranate molasses, the lemon juice, the olive oil, the sumac, the paprika, the salt and the crushed garlic.
Sprinkle the sauce on the vegetables. Toss well.
Add the hot grilled halloumi and serve.



Salade fattouch avec halloumi grill�
Ingr�dients (6 � 8 personnes): 
1 laitue �minc�e 
1 botte de m�che 
1 bouquet de persil cisel� 
 � bouquet de menthe cisel�e 
2 petits concombres �pluch�es et coup�es en rondelles 
7 � 8 radis coup�s en rondelles 
2 tomates coup�es en gros cubes 
1 oignon coup� en lamelles 
2 oignons verts �minc�s 
2 gousses d'ail �cras�es 
fromage halloumi, grill�

Sauce: 
1/4 tasse de m�lasse de grenade (debs el remmen) 
� tasse de jus de citron  
2/3 tasse d'huile d'olive 
� c�c de paprika 
1 � 2 c�s de sumac 
sel

Disposez tous les l�gumes dans un grand saladier.
Dans un bol, m�langez la m�lasse de grenade, le jus de citron, l'huile d'olive, le sumac, le paprika, le sel et l'ail �cras�.
Versez la sauce sur les l�gumes. M�langez bien.
Ajoutez le halloumi grill� et servez.



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