Recipe of Yummy Greek Salad

Hello everybody, welcome to my recipe site. Today I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, Greek Salad. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Greek Salad Recipe. 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.

You can have Greek Salad using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Greek Salad

1. Make ready of Greek Salad Dressing.
2. Make ready of Juice of 1 lemon.
3. Make ready 3 tbsp of red wine vinegar.
4. It’s 8 tbsp of olive oil (EVOO).
5. Prepare 6 cloves of garlic (minced).
6. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp of oregano.
7. You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
8. You need 1 1/2 tsp of pepper.
9. Take of Salad.
10. Take 2 heads of romaine lettuce.
11. You need 2 of tomatoes.
12. Take 1 of cucumber.
13. You need 1/2 cup of Kalamata olives.
14. Take 4 oz of 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.

Greek Salad instructions

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..

The way the salad was presented allowed one to really appreciate the vegetable flavors.I was on a quest to find the "restaurant style" Greek salad.I added more oregano (doubled the dressing portions) used mediterranian feta, no olives, and red wine vinegar.

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.