Tabbouleh or Tabouleh or Tabouli or Tabooley or Tipili

Is a delightfully fresh and tasty salad dish from the middle east, Syria and Lebanon - it's also popular in Brazil and the Dominican Republic where it is call Tipili.. and my mother loves it, so it's got to be good!!

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Yields: 1 Salad

Ingredients

• 2  bunches fresh parsley
• 1  cup mint leaf (fresh or 1 tbsp. dried)
• 1  bunch scallion
• 5  diced tomatoes or 1 (12 ounce) can  pine cone tomatoes
• 3  lemons, juice of
• 1  cup  wheat bulgur (med or fine)
• 1⁄4 cup olive oil
•  salt and pepper

Directions

1. Clean and wash vegetables.
2. Chop small and put in large mixing bowl.
3. Wash and soak wheat 10 minutes.
4. Squeeze water from wheat and add to vegetables. Add lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper. Mix well. Serve with Syrian bread, grape leaves, or cooked cabbage leaves - Or scoop it into a romaine leaf.
5. My mother adds finely chopped onions in her recipe.