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Cooking & Food Talk => Charcoal Grilling & BBQ => Topic started by: 1buckie on January 23, 2013, 02:23:24 AM

Title: The Vegetable Problem ~ Part 2 ~ Tabouli (or Tabouleh)
Post by: 1buckie on January 23, 2013, 02:23:24 AM

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....

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Memorial%20Wk%202012/MemorialWk2012017.jpg)

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 ~~~>

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Memorial%20Wk%202012/MemorialWk2012014.jpg)

Mint ~~~>
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Memorial%20Wk%202012/MemorialWk2012019.jpg)

Adding in ....
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Memorial%20Wk%202012/MemorialWk2012020.jpg)

This was a no tomato batch ~~~>
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Memorial%20Wk%202012/MemorialWk2012003-2.jpg)

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...
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Memorial%20Wk%202012/MemorialWk2012015.jpg)

Title: Re: The Vegetable Problem ~ Part 2 ~ Tabouli (or Tabouleh)
Post by: glrasmussen on January 23, 2013, 04:59:41 AM

That looks great! I am boing to make this.
Looks like I could fit this into my winter diet.

Greg

Title: Re: The Vegetable Problem ~ Part 2 ~ Tabouli (or Tabouleh)
Post by: 1buckie on January 23, 2013, 06:25:13 AM

Yeah, it's really good stuff & there's a wide variation in flavor as you add little tweeks in.....
Tomato goes one way, serving with maybe a yorgurt sauce will send it different, the beets change it some & are really wild looking......
You can add different things to make it spicier, etc.

Have Fon Playin' w/ your Food !!!