DISH RESEARCH · Salad
Eech
Sylvia Hagopian’s eech is an Armenian tomato-and-bulgur salad that she remembers her grandmother making regularly.
About Eech
Sylvia Hagopian’s eech is an Armenian tomato-and-bulgur salad that she remembers her grandmother making regularly. Fine cracked wheat gives the salad its substantial grain base.
Tomato, tomato paste and pepper paste provide the sauce’s character. Lemon juice brings a sharp contrast, with Aleppo pepper, cayenne and black pepper supplying the seasoning.
Green onion and parsley finish the cold salad. Romaine leaves are an optional serving accompaniment, offering a crisp contrast to the softened bulgur and tomato mixture.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Eech
Sylvia Hagopian’s Armenian tomato-and-bulgur eech.
- Ripe tomatoesBase
- Extra-fine bulgurBase
- White onionAromatic
- Extra virgin olive oilCooking medium
- Lemon juiceSeasoning
- Tomato pasteSeasoning
- Pepper pasteSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- SaltSeasoning
- Black pepperSeasoning
- Aleppo pepperSeasoning
- Cayenne pepperSeasoning
- Green onionsGarnish
- ParsleyGarnish
- AllspiceSeasoning · Optional
- Romaine lettuce leavesAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Ripe tomatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Extra-fine bulgur: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat source-confirmed. Actual24 expressly cracked wheat confirms Wheat.
- White onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Extra virgin olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Tomato paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper paste: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual29 prepared paste, exact full formula unprovided, no own component link.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Black pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Aleppo pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Cayenne pepper: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green onions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Parsley: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Allspice (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13 author has added a pinch as optional minor addition, card omission not exclusion.
- Romaine lettuce leaves (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual13/50 optional service over plain plate.
Origins & food traditions
Armenia association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Armenia
- ArmeniaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Armenian Cuisine
- Armenian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.