Bulgur Mediterranean Salad

A delicious and fresh Mediterranean full of flavor salad with bulgur, vegan feta cheese, olives and fresh herbs. The third recipe of my back-to-school special video “healthy & plant-based lunchbox ideas”. If you’re more of a visual person, here it is! It also features three other vegan and easy lunchbox recipes, and I hope you enjoy it!

To prepare this salad you’ll need:

• Bulgur – bulgur is a cereal grain made from dried, cracked wheat, very popular in the middle easter cuisine, and delicious! It has gluten so if you need to exclude gluten from your diet for health reasons, you can replace it with quinoa or cuscus.
• Vegan Feta Cheese – you can replace it with another type of white cheese, like fresh mozzarella, paneer, or ricotta. Or you could also replace it with well-seasoned tofu.
• Cherry Tomatoes – or any other tomato that you have on hand. As tomatoes can get pretty watery, I salt them first to draw out the moisture. The salt from the salted tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese will most likely be enough to season your salad but adjust to your taste.
• Fresh Parsley & Fresh Mint – Infuse the salad with so much flavor.
• Black olives – besides being delicious, olives are high in vitamin E, iron, calcium, and copper, but they’re also rich in sodium since they’re packaged in saltwater. Olives are also very rich in antioxidants, especially oleuropein, hydroxytyrosol, tyrosol, oleanolic acid, and quercetin. Dietary antioxidants have been shown to reduce your risk of chronic illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer.
• Cucumber.
• Lemon juice, olive oil, pepper and salt to taste.

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