Gluten-Free Tabbouleh; Meatless Monday

I was introduced to Tabbouleh during my remain inwards the Middle East. It is a staple inwards their diet. It is a refreshing salad.It is commonly made amongst parsley & Bulgar wheat. Some add together mint to this salad while others don't. I had a large bunch of fresh parsley from the rooftop garden at my work.

I decided to brand Tabbouleh. But, I, equally a rule, avoid gluten. I thus decided to alteration this salad as well as instruct inwards gluten-free. Instead of Bulgar wheat, I used cauliflower! Yes, believe it or not, cauliflower!! It came out delicious!

My hubby loved it as well as so did all my colleagues at work. You must seek it. I used this recipe equally the base of operations as well as made my gluten-free substitutions.

Servings: 4-6

Ingredients :

Cauliflower florets: 2 cups
Flat foliage parsley: 1 large bunch
Tomatoes: 2 medium-sized, diced big.
Cucumber: 2 medium, deseeded as well as diced. I used Farsi cucumber.
Onion: 1 small, diced fine.
Lemon juice: 1/4 cup
Lemon zest: 1 tsp
Extra virgin olive oil: 1/4 cup
Salt: equally per taste
Freshly solid soil dark pepper: 1/2 tsp

Method:

Wash the cauliflower florets as well as dry out them using a newspaper towel. Using a nutrient processor, shred them until they expect similar tiny grain of broken wheat. Take the shredded cauliflower inwards a microwave prophylactic bowl. Cook it inwards the microwave for 1-2 mins. Keep aside.

Take the lemon juice, lemon zest, olive oil, tabular array salt as well as pepper inwards a piffling jolt . Close the lid of the jolt as well as milk tremble well. Keep aside.

Wash the parsley thoroughly. Air dry out it. Separate the leaves from the stems as well as proceed aside. Using a sudden knife, chop the leaves equally finely equally yous can. Do non role the nutrient processor for this pace ( I used it for business office of the leaves as well as was non happy amongst the result! I was beingness lazy!:()

Take the chopped parsley inwards a bowl. To it, add together the chopped tomatoes, onion as well as cucumbers. Mix well.

You tin either mix inwards the shredded cauliflower as well as and then mix inwards the dressing or yous could accommodate the parsley mixture equally the base, house the shredded cauliflower inwards the pump as well as drizzle the dressing on top. I prefer the sometime equally the flavors of the dressing as well as the parsley blend nicely into the cauliflower transforming it into 1 flavorful dish!

It tastes fifty-fifty ameliorate the adjacent day!

Enjoy!

I am bringing this to about of my favorite spider web log parties: Throwback Thursday, Angie's Fiesta Fri # 102 and Saucy Saturdays! Two of my favorite blogger friends are co-hosting the Fiesta: Elaine @ foodbod as well as Julie @ Hostess at Heart!

Cooking made easy:

One of the best agency to construct clean herbs is to soak them inwards H2O that has a few drops of vinegar inwards it. Remove the leaves as well as spread it on newspaper towels or dish fabric as well as locomote out it at that topographic point for sometime.

Tip for salubrious living:

Parsley is a rigid herb that has several wellness benefits. It is rich inwards several vitamins similar Vitamin C, B12, K & A. It is supposed to back upwardly the immune system. It is fifty-fifty purported to direct maintain anti-cancer properties. In the middle eastern countries it is believed to survive an aphrodisiac.

Food for thought:

Don't survive afraid to laissez passer on upwardly the skillful to instruct for the great. John D. Rockefeller