{"id":178,"date":"2012-05-04T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tracyleekarner.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2012-05-04T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T11:06:50","slug":"variation-on-tabouli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2012\/05\/04\/variation-on-tabouli\/","title":{"rendered":"Variation on a Theme of Tabouli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I can\u2019t stand myself when I waste good food, I had to come up with something that would use <strong><em>cilantro<\/em><\/strong> (they sell it in bunches too large for <a href=\"http:\/\/tracyleekarner.com\/2012\/04\/18\/salsa-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my salsa recipe<\/a>). I also wanted to use up the leftover salsa.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like Tex-Mex Tabouli.\u00a0I don\u2019t like that name, though, so my quick and easy bulgur salad that uses up leftover cilantro shall be known as<br \/>\n<em><strong>Variation on a Theme of Tabouli<\/strong>**\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll need&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>1 cup each of <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bulgar wheat<\/li>\n<li>boiling water<\/li>\n<li>chopped cilantro leaves (if you have less than a cup, use what you have);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>about 1\/4 cup each of <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>olive oil<\/li>\n<li>freshly-squeezed lime juice (it <em>must<\/em> be fresh!)<\/li>\n<li>salsa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Put it all together:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pour the boiling water over the bulgur wheat, cover and let rest for 1\/2 an hour.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in the chopped cilantro and salsa, add most of the olive oil and lime juice, stir and taste.<\/li>\n<li>Add more of whatever your tongue says it needs &#8212; a little more lime? some salt and\/or pepper? Maybe some chopped black olives? Crumbled queso fresco?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yum! It makes about 5 cups of salad (6-10 servings, depending on appetites and whether its a main course or a side)<br \/>\nLet it rest for a while in the refrigerator and it will taste even better.<br \/>\nNow you can feel virtuous for having made use of the leftover cilantro which might have been (gasp!) <em>wasted.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n**I borrowed my blog title from Rachmaninoff\u2019s composition <em>Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,\u00a0<\/em>which has 20-something variations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I can\u2019t stand myself when I waste good food, I had to come up with something that would use cilantro (they sell it in bunches too large for my salsa recipe). I also wanted to use up the leftover salsa. It&#8217;s like Tex-Mex Tabouli.\u00a0I don\u2019t like that name, though, so my quick and easy &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/2012\/05\/04\/variation-on-tabouli\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Variation on a Theme of Tabouli<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[194,246,890,1044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracyrittmueller.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}