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Whole wheat pita bread

Pita bread is a soft Middle eastern bread which has pockets in which hummus, tahini, falafel and salad is scooped to make popular falafel sandwiches. Pita bread can be cut into traingle shape and baked in oven too to make crisp pita chips to accompany dips and salsa. Pita is baked at high temperature causing it to rise and create pockets which remain even when it gets deflated on cooling down. I love middle eastern food. Its healthy, lemony, garlicky and made with super fresh ingredients and fruity extra virgin olive oil. Fattoush salad, Tabbouleh, hummus and Falafel sandwiches are all my favorites. Pita is usually made with all purpose flour but I am sharing the recipe of whole wheat pita bread which is equally good, plus healthier too! It is soft, yeasty, pillowy, guilt free and you will want to stuff everything from grilled meat, seafood to barbecued cottage cheese into it and finishing with dips like hummus , tahini, pesto , aioli and salsa . I enjoy eating it with a good...

Lebanese Fattoush salad

I love salads. I can have them all the time. My favorite dressing being this simple Olive oil+ lemon juice/white wine vinegar + honey +salt+ black pepper, I add it to pretty much every salad I eat. I have used this dressing in Apple and Pear salad , Cornflakes salad and Beetroot Carpaccio with goat's cheese salad . Another salad which I relish a lot in summer is this robust Panzanella salad . It's made with fresh seasonal tomatoes and lots of basil. Balsamic dressing packs such a punch in soaked croutons in this salad. I have disliked lettuce for as long as I can remember untill I ate this salad for dinner last night! I was originally going to make Ceaser salad for my husband but with the newly bought middle eastern spice Sumac, I was rather tempted to make this refreshing Fattoush salad with a tangy sumac dressing. Sumac is a tangy ,lemony spice which is used in Middle Eastern cooking to make food sour. It is mostly used as a salad dressing and sprinkled over dips. ...