Fattoush

Fattoush is a Levantine salad made with fried khubz (Arabic bread) – usually leftover scraps of pita – mixed with various greens and vegetables. It's a fatteh (or fatta) dish, which is a type of Middle Eastern dish made with leftover pita and other ingredients that are repurposed to make a new meal.

Fattoush is said to be a northern Lebanese dish. Farmers would fry leftover pita scraps in olive oil and combine them with whatever vegetables and herbs they had on hand. As a result, fattoush recipes differ, but the salad can be prepared with whatever vegetables are in season. It's dressed simply with a sumac vinaigrette.

Aside from the fried pita, the most important ingredient in fattoush is ground sumac, which gives the salad its distinctive tart flavor.