{"id":459,"date":"2010-10-16T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/2010\/10\/16\/tabouleh-the-quintessential-middle-east-salad\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:33:04","slug":"tabbouleh-or-tabouli-salad-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enrilemoine.com\/en\/2010\/10\/16\/tabbouleh-or-tabouli-salad-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabbouleh or Tabouli Salad + VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tabbouleh or Tabouli is the quintessential Middle Eastern salad. It’s made of chopped parsley, diced tomatoes, and bulgur wheat and seasoned with olive oil and fresh lime juice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I first posted this tabbouleh salad recipe back in 2010. At that time, living in Southern California, I grew all the products to make this salad in my kitchen garden<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, now that I live in lovely but not-so-bucolic Miami, I shop for fresh local produce and keep making humongous tabbouleh bowls because this is, by far, my favorite salad. Following is my original post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A family of tabouli lovers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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One of the reasons I grow parsley more than any other fresh herb is because of this tabbouleh salad. In my house, this is called \u201cthe parsley thing.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every time I make it, my sybarite gourmet son, Andr\u00e9s Ignacio, who is almost 9 years old and, like me, is a tabbouleh killer, starts to get around the kitchen picking the parsley leaves. And he doesn\u2019t stop until he gets the first bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He learned to eat this salad when he was a baby. I remember the day I had tabbouleh when he was 9 months old. He sat in his baby-eating chair, watching me eat, and began drooling. So I let him sample it. It was love at first bite! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is tabbouleh?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Bulgur,<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tabbouleh is the classic Middle Eastern salad. For me, tabouli is the quintessential salad: fresh, crispy, colorful, and flavorful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n