Greek Salad
Greek Salad

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, greek salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Greek Salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Greek Salad is something which I have loved my whole life.

Greek salad or horiatiki salad (Greek: χωριάτικη σαλάτα or θερινή σαλάτα) is a popular salad in Greek cuisine generally made with pieces of tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, feta cheese (usually served as a slice on top of the other ingredients), and olives (typically Kalamata olives) and dressed with salt. Ina Garten makes her Greek Salad recipe. She begins by making homemade vinaigrette, which includes half a cup of olive oil, a quarter.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek salad using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Salad:
  1. Prepare 6-8 Roma tomatoes
  2. Get 1 red onion
  3. Take 1 green bell pepper, cored
  4. Make ready 1-2 cucumbers
  5. Make ready Greek pitted Kalamata olives
  6. Take 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  7. Prepare 1-2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  8. Get Greek feta cheese (crumble)
  9. Make ready 1/2 tbsp dried oregano
  10. Take to taste Salt and pepper
  11. Take Serve with crusty bread!

This Greek salad recipe is brimming with flavor - loaded with delicious fresh vegetables, olives, chickpeas, and feta cheese tossed in a light and refreshing greek salad dressing. Greek salad, also known as village salad or horiatiki is the national dish of Greece, consisting of quartered tomatoes, sliced red onions, and chunky slices of cucumber. This authentic Greek salad recipe is made simply with tomato, cucumber, green pepper, red onion, olives, oregano, and a red wine vinaigrette, and lots of feta cheese. One of the most famous Greek recipes that anyone who has visited Greece during the Summer vacations has tried it.

Steps to make Greek Salad:
  1. Cut the tomatoes into wedges or large chunks
  2. Cut the partially peeled cucumber in half length-wise, then slice into thick halves (at least 1/2″ in thickness)
  3. Thinly slice the bell pepper into rings.
  4. Cut the red onion in half and thinly slice into half moons.
  5. Place everything in a large salad dish. Add a good handful of the pitted kalamata olives.
  6. Season very lightly with salt (just a pinch). Pour the olive oil and red wine vinegar.
  7. Give everything a very gentle toss to mix; do NOT over mix, this salad is not meant to be handled too much.
  8. Now add the the feta on top. Sprinkle the dried oregano on top.
  9. Serve with crusty bread!
  10. I like to refrigerate mine to 1 or 2 hours before serving but you don’t have too.
  11. Notes- you can use any Tomatoes that you like as many or as little, that goes for everything in this recipe. You can use different colors bell peppers or sweet peppers… I think the more Olive oil you use the better and a slash of vinegar… I know I use way more olive oil than the recipe calls for.. I make everything to taste with this recipe… if you don’t like an ingredient use less of it or not at all. The best part about this salad is you can make a lot of it or just one severing…

Our collection of Greek salad recipes has the classic mix you expect plus a few twists on the Tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, feta cheese — Greek salads are brimming with flavorful ingredients. This chunky Greek salad recipe is quick to make and packed with protein. The wholemeal pitta makes a high-fibre accompaniement. Greek salad is one of the most famous salads out there. Its classic ingredients are fresh tomato, cucumbers, capers, onion, feta cheese, olives, green bell pepper, and at least two or three spoonfuls.

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