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Questions Doubts and Requests => Recipe Requests => Topic started by: Kath Wilkinson on December 16, 2009, 11:19:16 am
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I would like to make tabbouleh starting from scratch and cracking the wheat in the Thermomix. Has anyone done this? I have been hunting for a tabbouleh recipe and so far have been unsuccessful.
Kath
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Hi Kath,
I use a recipe from Nourishing Tradition with sprouted bulgur.
Sprout 3 cups of soft wheat berries. Drain well, spread on a cookie sheetand set in a warm oven, no more than 150*F, overnight or until the berries are well dried. Grind coarsly in your Thermomix and keep in a container in the refrigerator. As the bulgur has been sprouted, it does not require a long soaking before cooking.
For the Tabouli Salad soak about 1/2 cup for 10 minutes in warm - not hot- water. Pour into strainer, rinse and squeeze dry with your hands. Mix with your ingredients :
3 bunches of parsley,
2 bunches green onion
3 tomatoes, peeled, seedes and chopped
1/2 cup fresh mint leaves
1/2 cup or more lemon juice
1/2 cup or more extra virgin olive oil
Chop the washed parsley in your Thermomix. Mix with all the ingredients, cover and refrigerate several hous before serving
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Thanks Elisabeth. Just beat me to it.
One thing for Kath - if you look at recipes in Australia with bulghur it means wheat that has been parboiled before cracking and so requires little extra cooking - just soaking. Cracked wheat is uncooked and so needs cooking to make it edible in the tabbouleh.
Tebasile's sprouting method sounds good - you could use whole wheat and sprout it rather than parboliing or cooking it and more nutritious and digestible.
I would pput the green onions in with the cracked wheat and mix it on reverse for a minute or 3 to help get the flavour into the grains. My recipe has you massage the onion into the grains. Just a thought.
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Thank you ladies.
I will give those ideas a try.
Kath