Na‘ama‘s buttermilk fattoush from Falastin: A Cookbook (page 99) by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley

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Accompaniments: Open meat pies (Sfiha 1); Open cauliflower pies (Sfiha 2); Pulled lamb shawarma sandwich

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  • Eat Your Books

    Can substitute English cucumbers for Lebanese cucumbers, and stale Turkish flatbread or stale pita bread for stale naan bread.

  • TheresaH on March 22, 2026

    Everyone loved this salad. It’s quite delicious.

  • pamacea on December 14, 2025

    Very nice, and the flavour combination is refreshing. I very often substitute zucchini for cucumber for texture, which worked well in this dish.

  • bernalgirl on October 17, 2022

    This was a great salad, so glad I made it before the summer tomatoes go away. Next time I would combine the tomatoes, pepper, salt and lemon juice about 10 minutes before combining the remaining ingredients to heighten the flavors. Can’t wait to return to this one next year.

  • Barb_N on August 09, 2021

    I had to scale this to my scanty amount of cucumber. Served with roasted fig, onion and radicchio from same book.

  • amandabeck on March 29, 2021

    This was great. I made a few adjustments: I added romaine to it and toasted the pita until it crisped up beforehand. I didn't have buttermilk so I used yogurt, and mixed all the dressing components (lemon juice, ACV, sumac, salt, pepper, garlic, and olive oil together). I didn't dress the whole salad and saved some for the next day, where the dressing developed even stronger garlic flavor and tasted even better.

  • EmilyR on June 22, 2020

    A nice summery, light, but flavorful salad. Make sure that bread is stale or dried out, because it definitely soaks up the buttermilk dressing. I even ended up pouring off some of the dressing because it was puddled up in the bottom of the bowl.

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