Tabouli

Ingredients

To make enough for lots of hungry people and to have leftovers to send home with people and keep for yourself (a big bowl's worth), you'll want these approximate quantities of the intgredients:

• 2½ cups bulghar
• 5 cups water
• 1½-2 very large cucumbers, or 3 normal ones
• 1½-2 very large tomatoes, or 3 normal ones
• enough parsely for a large handful when chopped
• enough mint leaves for a small handful when chopped
• about 5 stalks of green onion
• 3 or 4 cloves of garlic
• ½ large lemon's worth of juice, or 1-2 small lemons' worth
• several tbsp honey
• about twice as much olive oil as honey
• a certain amount of cumin
• about half as much allspice as cumin
• about half as much pepper as allspice
• about half as much aslt as pepper

Recipe

After boiling water in a pot, put in about half as much bulghar as water. Into a cup or small bowl add and mix together olive oil, lemon juice, cumin, salt, pepper, and honey. Dice cucumbers, tomatoes, parsely, mint, garlic, and green onion. An hour after adding the bulghar to the water, mix the vegetables and bulghar together in a bowl. Also mix in the sauce prepared earlier. Put it in the fridge to cool for at least an hour.