Greek Salad
Greek Salad

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, greek salad. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Greek Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Greek Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

An authentic Greek salad from Oia, Santorini in Greece. Traveling through Greece, I feel in love with the Greek salads on the islands because they had no lettuce. When I came home, I was determined to replicate that salad for family and friends.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook greek salad using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Salad:
  1. Take Greek Salad Dressing
  2. Prepare Juice of 1 lemon
  3. Get 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
  4. Get 8 tbsp olive oil (EVOO)
  5. Take 6 cloves garlic (minced)
  6. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp oregano
  7. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp salt
  8. Get 1 1/2 tsp pepper
  9. Get Salad
  10. Take 2 heads romaine lettuce
  11. Get 2 tomatoes
  12. Get 1 cucumber
  13. Take 1/2 cup Kalamata olives
  14. Get 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.

Steps to make Greek Salad:
  1. Mix together salad dressing ingredients and whisk until combined.
  2. Chop romaine lettuce across into strips. Then cut the strips in half. (I like to cut the lettuce into bite size pieces)
  3. Peel, slice, and quarter the cucumber. Slice and chop the tomato.
  4. 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).
  5. Add olives and feta cheese. Toss salad, and serve.
  6. 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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