Ingredients
400 ml | Buttermilk, or 200g Greek yoghurt and 200ml full-fat milk |
2 loaves | Turkish bread, flat, or naan (Main) |
3 | Large ripe tomatoes, cut into 1.5cm dice |
100 g | Radishes, thinly sliced |
3 | Lebanese cucumber, peeled & chopped into 1.5 dice |
2 | Spring onions, thinly sliced |
25 g | Flat leaf (Italian) parsley, roughly chopped |
2 cloves | Crushed garlic |
1 Tbsp | Dried mint |
3 Tbsp | Lemon juice |
60 ml | Olive oil, plus exrra to drizzle |
2 Tbsp | White wine vinegar |
¾ tsp | Freshly ground black pepper |
1 ½ tsp | Salt |
1 Tbsp | Sumac powder, according to taste, to garnish |
Directions
- You could skip the fermentation stage and use buttermilk instead of the combination of milk and yoghurt.
- If using yoghurt and milk, start at least three hours and up to a day in advance by placing both in a bowl.
- Whisk well and leave in a cool place or in the fridge until bubbles form on the surface. What you get is a kind of homemade buttermilk, but less sour.
- Tear the bread into bite-sized pieces and place in a large mixing bowl.
- Add your fermented yoghurt mixture or commercial buttermilk, followed by the rest of the ingredients, mix well and leave for 10 minutes for all the flavours to combine.
- Spoon the fattoush into serving bowls, drizzle with some olive oil and garnish generously with sumac.