Ingredients
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1 cup medium Bulgar wheat (#2)
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2 -3 bunches parsley, stemmed and chopped, depending on size
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1 -2 bunch fresh mint leaves, finely chopped, depending on size, more to taste
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2 bunches green onions, chopped
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4 -5 ripe firm tomatoes, partially seeded and chopped
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1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, to taste
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salt & fresh ground pepper
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3 -5 lemons, juice of, to taste
Instructions
- This recipe is a breeze if you have a food processor, a little more work if you don't.
- If using a processor, chop parsley and mint together, using a pulsing action, to ensure that you don't end up pureeing them, and remove to a bowl.
- Repeat with green onions, and add it bowl.
- Chop tomatoes, preferably by hand, into about 1/4" dice, and add to bowl.
- If you are making this for company, you might want to chop everything by hand.
- It makes a much prettier dish than when made in the processor, but I never bother when it is for personal consumption; I just take a little care when using the processor.
- Wash bulghur thoroughly, drain, and soak in fresh hot water for about 1 hour.
- Drain and squeeze as dry as possible, and combine with vegetables.
- Drizzle with lemon juice and olive oil.
- Add salt and pepper to taste, and toss thoroughly.
- You can be quite generous with the pepper.
- Refrigerate for about an hour, taste, and adjust salt and pepper.
- In addition to serving a a salad or part of a meza appetizer assortment, it is also good as dressing on a falafel or lamb sandwich in pita bread.