Easy Tabouli Recipe

Easy Tabouli Recipe

Ingredients

• 100g bulgur wheat
• 2 large firm, vine-ripened tomatoes (about 200g) with lots of flavour
• 1 large bunch (about 100g) fresh flatleaf parsley
• 20g fresh mint
• 6 spring onions, trimmed and very thinly sliced
• 3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

Method

1. Put the bulgur wheat in a bowl, pour over cold water to cover and rub your fingers through the grains to remove excess starch
2. Drain through a sieve, tip back into the bowl and just cover with boiling water from the kettle
3. Leave to soak for 10 minutes, no longer
4. Drain the bulgur wheat well, tip onto a clean tea towel and press out the excess water
5. Transfer to a large dry mixing bowl minutes before you are ready to serve
6. Finely dice the tomatoes, mix them into the bulgur and set aside for a few minutes :For the flavours to mingle
7. Just before serving, bunch up the parsley and slice the leaves across as finely as you can but don’t chop them
8. Slice the mint leaves in the same way
9. Stir the parsley, mint, spring onions, lemon juice, olive oil and some flaky sea salt into the salad and serve straightaway

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