Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, greek salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Greek Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Greek Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
I was craving carbs and a Greek salad one day and that led to this wonderful creation. Greek dressing is so underrated, but in this recipe it is the star! This is a nice, light salad that showcases chick peas, radishes, cucumbers and feta cheese.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have greek salad using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Greek Salad:
- Get Greek Salad Dressing
- Prepare Juice of 1 lemon
- Make ready 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Make ready 8 tbsp olive oil (EVOO)
- Take 6 cloves garlic (minced)
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp oregano
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp pepper
- Take Salad
- Prepare 2 heads romaine lettuce
- Get 2 tomatoes
- Make ready 1 cucumber
- Make ready 1/2 cup Kalamata olives
- Prepare 4 oz feta cheese (crumbled)
Now the red wine vinegar gave it the missing zip in my opinion. Known as horiatiki, this traditional Greek salad is made with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, kalamata olives, thinly sliced red onion, and feta. We usually have plenty of tomatoes and cucumbers growing in the garden, and all you have to do is toss in some red onions, olives, bell pepper, feta cheese, a few herbs, and some olive oil and vinegar and you have beautiful, cooling, fresh, Greek salad. All the best ingredients and flavors of Greek cuisine, all in one.
Instructions to make Greek Salad:
- Mix together salad dressing ingredients and whisk until combined.
- Chop romaine lettuce across into strips. Then cut the strips in half. (I like to cut the lettuce into bite size pieces)
- Peel, slice, and quarter the cucumber. Slice and chop the tomato.
- Add lettuce, tomato, and cucumber to a salad bowl and add enough dressing to coat. (You don't have to use all the dressing you mixed up).
- Add olives and feta cheese. Toss salad, and serve.
- It's a great side for chicken kebabs, shawarma, or Mediterranean favorites.
Greek salad dressing, including ours, is typically made of olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, mustard, garlic and oregano. Some variations include basil leaves and feta cheese. How do you make Greek salad dressing from scratch? It's super simple to make Greek salad dressing from scratch! Shake the dressing ingredients in a jar and.
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