Greek Salad
Greek Salad

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, greek salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Greek Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Greek Salad is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have greek salad using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

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 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.

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…

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. How can you say this is a traditional Greek salad with no green peppers and no Greek olives not to mention no lettuce in a traditional Greek salad. Very delicious and simple salad, went very well with Greek Pork Chops.

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