Original video by @zaynab_issa — all credit to the creator.
Arrogant Tomato Toast
Sourdough fried in za'atar-spiced olive oil until crisp, spread with cool labneh and piled with thick slices of summer heirloom tomato. Flaky salt, black pepper, and a final drizzle of that fragrant za'atar oil make it sing.
Ingredients
- 1 slicesourdough bread
- —olive oil · for frying, plus more for drizzling
- —za'atar
- —labneh
- 1 sliceheirloom or beefsteak tomato · thick slice from a large tomato
- —flaky salt
- —black pepper
Steps
- 1
Fry the sourdough bread in olive oil with za'atar until crisp.
- 2
Spread the toast with labneh.
- 3
Slice the heirloom or beefsteak tomato and lay a thick slice over the labneh.
- 4
Top with plenty of flaky salt and black pepper, then drizzle with any leftover za'atar oil and more olive oil.
Creator's notes
From Zaynab Issa's cookbook Third Culture Cooking, page 92.
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