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By Joe Yonan

This is simply a deconstructed mentation of the Middle Eastern tomato/bread salad, turning it into a platter afloat of elements cleanable for a serve-yourself attack astatine a meal party. You tin get arsenic artful oregon arsenic casual arsenic you’d similar with the presentation, letting guests take their favourite parts and make their cleanable bites.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8 (makes 12 cups)

For the salad

1/2 cupful extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cupful caller citrus juice
3 cloves garlic, finely grated oregon pressed
1/2 spoon good salt
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
2 1/2 pounds caller tomatoes, preferably a premix of shapes, sizes and colors, cored if needed and chopped into rounds and/or wedges
3 to 4 tiny cucumbers (12 ounces total), sliced
1 reddish doorbell pepper, stemmed, cored and sliced
One (15-ounce) tin no-salt-added chickpeas, drained and rinsed (or 1 1/2 cups cooked chickpeas)
1/2 mean reddish bulb (3 ounces), thinly sliced
1 spoon crushed sumac (may substitute za’atar spice blend)
1 tablespoonful chopped caller flat-leaf parsley
1 tablespoonful chopped caller mint
Lemon wedges, for serving

For the crispy pita

4 tiny pita pockets oregon 2 ample pita breads (6 ounces), chopped into triangles
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 1/2 cups), based connected 8

Calories
299
Fat
19 g
Saturated Fat
3 g
Carbohydrates
30 g
Sodium
290 mg
Protein
6 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “In Praise of Veg” by Alice Zaslavsky (Appetite, 2022).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published July 23, 2022

Updated March 17, 2026