Greek Salad
Greek Salad

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, greek salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Whatever You Need, Whatever You Want, Whatever You Desire, We Provide. 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.

Greek Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Greek Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek salad using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

I added more oregano (doubled the dressing portions) used mediterranian feta, no olives, and red wine vinegar. 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.

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.

All the best ingredients and flavors of Greek cuisine, all in one. 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!

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