Fatoosh Salad and Veggie Ragu
Apparently in Lebanon, what I know as Israeli salad, is called Fatoosh. The only real difference as far as I can tell, is that there’s Sumac in the dressing instead of zataar. I used both in this, because frankly, when it comes to the spice of life, it’s the more the merrier.
I used a slightly more American combo of vegetable ingredients, going with mescalin? mix, cucumbers, and peas. The dressing was as follows.
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp zataar
1 tbsp sumac
salt to taste
Now while the salad was great, the Ragu was even better. Unlike the salad however, the Ragu just isn’t a great looking dish.
The Veggie Ragu is a recipe from The Passionate Vegetarian, which I followed to a T, except that I skipped all the cooking instructions and dumped everything in the slow cooker for 7 hours instead. It has a lot of large chunks instead of being overly saucy, but that can be a good thing for pasta. I grew up with pasta/veggie stirfrys all the time, we weren’t a spaghetti and marinara kind of family. I was also a pretty big fan of the seitan in the mix, which somehow avoided rubbery land unlike the seitan in the chili…oh well.
Selah.
AWESOME! I’m constantly searching for vegetarian diet recipes and I stumbled your site. This recipe looks absolutely delicious! I’m gonna try it right away! Thanks for providing this awesome recipe. This is a nice blog and will be looking forward to read more from you.
- Shane
Does anyone have the recipe for chicken salad with? I’m looking for the recipe for chicken salad that has peas and potatoes…i had this at a baby shower on some tostadas and it was really good. does anyone have this recipe. thanx