Pita Bread Salad with Cucumbers, Cherry Tomatoes, and Fresh Herbs

Name: Pita Bread Salad with Cucumbers, Cherry Tomatoes, and Fresh Herbs
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 , medium cucumber, peeled and seeded, cut into small dice; , Salt and ground black pepper; 4 , pita breads, 6-inch size, several days old, torn into 1/2-inch pieces; 1 pint, cherry tomatoes, halved; 6 , scallions, trimmed and sliced thin, including 2-inches of green; 1/4 cup, minced fresh mint leaves; 1/4 cup, minced fresh cilantro leaves or minced parsley leaves; 1/2 cup, extra-virgin olive oil; 6 tablespoons, lemon juice from 2 large lemons

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1995

Day-old, good-quality bread can be recycled in Mediterranean-style salads.

SERVES6

TIME35 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our bread salad recipes, we recycled good-quality day-old bread to create Mediterranean-style dishes. We found that sourdough or a sturdy peasant bread, including pita bread, was needed for a good bread salad recipe. Airy, unsubstantial...

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