More bulgur salad, with lightly browned fish

More bulgur salad, with lightly browned fish
Originally uploaded by askliu.

I've been making a lot of salads recently since it's been quite hot recently in Baltimore. The less I have to turn on the stove the better, since my cramped little kitchen gets ridiculously hot whenever I cook or even boil water. Plus, a refreshingly crisp salad hits the spot after walking home through the sticky weather!

This salad is extremely easy and a lot of the preparation can be done in advance. Before you go out in the morning, soak about 1/2 cup of bulgur with 1/2 cup water (hot or cold is ok).

Chop up two medium-sized ripe tomatoes, one medium-sized cucumber (ideally, the thin skin kind, but a peeled regular cuke is ok too), and about 1/2 cup to 1 cup of finely chopped parsley.

Mix the veggies with the reconstituted bulgur, and add to it 1 large lemon's worth of lemon juice, about 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil (you can eyeball this, but don't add too much), and salt and pepper to taste. I added some finely minced garlic and jalapeno for a bit of heat, but you can forgo the hot peppers if you don't like them.


I had some tilapia browned in some butter, since that's all I had in the freezer. Super easy meal!