Tabbouleh salad, Tabbouli, or even Tabouli salad is a dish that?s becoming more and more well-known away from it?s traditional Levantine (Eastern Mediterranean) homelands, and there?s very good reason for that. Made from either couscous or bulgur and seasoned with parsley, tomatoes and a mezze of other flavours, it?s extremely tasty – and quick too.
Tabbouleh salad is almost always vegan as well, (and certainly vegetarian) – which is more than fine with us, of course.
Parsley is one of the main ingredients in this salad, and that can only be a good thing. If you?re a fan then you know it has that fresh, lively and slightly bitter taste that really kick-starts the tastebuds. In fact, it kick-starts everything. For me, that?s the best thing about parsley – like any good team player, it makes everything around it work better. The flavours of the couscous, tomatoes and cucumber are all enhanced by the humble parsley, and the added mint offsets that hint of bitter, too. Perfect.
Parsley Salad – it?s not just the taste that?s kicking
Although not often mentioned in the same breath as ?superfood? (and that?s a good thing, stupid word), parsley is a surprisingly nourishing herb. Gaining ?excellent? ratings for its vitamins K, C, A, iron and folate levels, parsley is something we should all be eating more of, more often.
Vegetarians in particular should always be wary of their iron levels, as iron from plants is harder for the body to absorb than iron from ...