Here's another one, in case you're asked to accomodate non-meat types.....
Tabouli (or Tabouleh)
This is cracked wheat known as bulgur (rhymes with vulgar, I know)
1 Cup uncooked medium grain bulgur
1 Cup fresh lemon juice (3-4 lemons)
2-3 large garlic cloves fine chopped
(I use maybe double)
Sea salt & cracked black pepper to taste
1 tsp. ground cumin
1/4 Cup olive oil (a little more is OK)
1 standard can cooked chick peas (garbanzo beans), drained / washed
1/2 Cup fresh mint, fairly fine chopped
1Cup fine chopped green onion
1 large cucumber, small diced
(I use English, or 'Hot house')
Optional: Small diced roma tomato (2-3 each)
THEN ~~~>Put bulgur in a bowl & fill to 1/2 inch above whatever amount of material you have
Wait about 20 minutes & the wheat will soak up the water....
Then mix oil,lemon juice,salt, pepper,cumin,& garlic & stir into bulgur....
Wait another 20 minutes for it to soak in & then add solids mint, chick peas, gr. onion, cucmber, tomato....
Good to go....
Green onion & cucumber ~~~>
Mint ~~~>
Adding in ....
This was a no tomato batch ~~~>
This stuff is weirdly filling & satisfying, considering you're eating grain (like cows eat)
Mint, oil & lemon juice are the most important items...don't go shy on those...More is better.....
To send this one completely around the block, grate 2 large
fresh beets into the finished mix....crazy purple BEET tabouli PS: this was a 4x batch...You can tell by the scribbled little piece of paper in this photo I just found...