A last word about Parsley: Tabbouleh/Tabouli

However you wish to spell it, this is an Arab PARSLEY salad. Not the Bulghur salad that way too many thrifty people pass around at potlucks.  Genuine tabbouleh uses twice as much parsley as bulghur. In other words, to make this salad for, say, 6 people, you would use 1/2 c bulghur (raw before you plump it) and then at least 1 c fresh chopped parsley, at least.  You then toss in mint at 1/2 the amount of bulghur, which in this example would be 1/4 c fresh mint leaves minced. That's the essential core. This is a heat fighting, body cooling and moisturizing salad.  The customized optional add ons are tomatoes, cucumbers and chickpeas--but never in a quantity that surpasses the parsley. This is a parsley salad. And parsley is very helpful to your health. Much more than bulghur. So this really is an ingenious recipe: tasty, eye catching, easy to make, medicinal and seriously nutritious. Enjoy it!