Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, greek salad. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Greek Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Greek Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.
There are different ways to make eggplant salad, a very common summer salad in my country. This is a version called 'agioritiki' named from mount Athos (Agion Oros). It's refreshing with smoky flavor and can stay refrigerated up to three days.
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:
- Take Greek Salad Dressing
- Make ready Juice of 1 lemon
- Get 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
- Make ready 8 tbsp olive oil (EVOO)
- Get 6 cloves garlic (minced)
- Get 1 1/2 tsp oregano
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 1 1/2 tsp pepper
- Prepare Salad
- Prepare 2 heads romaine lettuce
- Take 2 tomatoes
- Get 1 cucumber
- Take 1/2 cup Kalamata olives
- Take 4 oz feta cheese (crumbled)
Place the cucumber, peppers, tomatoes and red onion in a large bowl. For the vinaigrette, whisk together the garlic, oregano, mustard, vinegar, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Known as horiatiki, this traditional Greek salad is made with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, kalamata olives, thinly sliced red onion, and feta. The easy dressing is a mixture of red wine vinegar,.
Steps 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.
Put all the tomatoes into a large salad bowl. Slice the onion very finely so it's wafer thin and add to the tomatoes. Scratch a fork down the sides of the cucumber so it leaves deep grooves in the skin, then cut it into thick slices. Deseed your pepper, slice it into rings and add them to the salad along with the cucumber. In Greece, Horiatiki or Greek village salad, is served most often from early spring to the early part of fall.
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