Bulgur Salad

We've been planning to do a barbecue in the park all month but it's been a very rainy summer. Finally, we decided that since we hadn't got any respite from the rain in weeks we'd go ahead with a little barbecue at home with our electric table grill.
We bought some marinated chicken from Lidl, the German supermarket. (Their marinated meats are pretty good and also very reasonably priced.)

 I decided to make some salad at home as an accompaniment to our grilled chicken. I wanted to make something that's healthy as well as tasty, simple and yet filling and so I decided to make us some Bulgur Salad. The recipe is simple but you need to prepare a few hours in advance.
 Here it is:

Ingredients:


Bulgur wheat - 2 cups
Chicken bouillon cube - 1 1/2
Water - 2 cups
Chopped tomato - 1
Chopped cucumber - 1/2
Chopped carrot - 1
Chopped yellow bell pepper - 1
Finely chopped parsley - 2 tbsps
Lemon juice - 1/2 a lemon
Freshly ground garlic powder - 1/4 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Freshly ground pepper - to taste

Method:


Wash the bulgur wheat with cold water and drain completely.
Add one bouillon cube to two cups of water and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in the bulgur. Let it stand for 45-60 minutes.
Mix the bulgur with the chopped vegetables and the parsley.
 In a small bowl whisk together the lemon juice, garlic powder, chilli powder and half of the chicken bouillon cube. Pour this over the salad and mix well.
Sprinkle a little freshly ground pepper.
Refrigerate the salad for a couple of hours and serve cold.

Vegetarians can replace the chicken bouillon cubes with vegetarian ones. The bouillon cubes usually have a lot of salt so I haven't added any extra salt but you may need to vary the quantity of cubes you use as per taste.