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Best Greek Salad Recipe

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Best Greek Salad Recipe with a dressing, tossed together with lettuce. An easy and crunchy cold side dish in a bowl for braai, barbecue meals.

Best Greek Salad Recipe with a dressing, tossed together with lettuce. An easy and crunchy cold side dish in a bowl for braai, barbecue meals.

Best Greek Salad Recipe

The best Greek salad recipe idea, is a few ingredients tossed together with lettuce, such as tomato and cucumber, onion, feta and olives. It makes an easy side dish to put together with a simple dressing. An amazing and popular salad to Wisk up for a braai or barbecue or any meals. The most popular and simple cold salad to make for meals. A no cook and no bake

What are the ingredients of Greek salad?

Traditionally a Greek salad consist of these ingredients, and should be made this way.

  1. sliced cucumbers
  2. tomatoes
  3. green red bell peppers
  4. red onion
  5. olives
  6. feta cheese

Ingredients.

The ingredients speak for themselves.

  1. Small cut up tomato´s with
  2. fresh lettuce and
  3. cut up cucumber and
  4. sliced red onion.
  5. Feta and
  6. olives
  7. with a normal addition of a few bell peppers for color.

See the full amounts and ingredients for the dressing and the instructions in the recipe attached.

Red cherry tomato

Green or red lettuce

English cucumber

Red onion sliced

The feta with herbs is my choice. An optional addition can be bell peppers red or green or yellow for a splash of color.

What makes a Greek salad is these black olives. Can add green olives if you prefer.

How To.

Wash and clean all of the ingredients and cut to size required. Add them into a large bowl and toss them all together with salt and olive oil dressing.

Make the dressing to mix and toss the salad in. Serve some dressing with the bowl of salad on the table when serving. (see directions for dressing in the recipe attached)

A plate of Greek salad with some toasted bread and salad dressing if more is needed.

Is Greek Salad Healthy?

It is low in calories and nutrient dense. Provides you with vit c and Vit A as well as potassium and iron.

It also contains phytonutrients and antioxidants, which reduces the risk of health problems such as heart disease and cancer.

Is feta cheese anti inflammatory?

Feta cheese contains friendly bacteria that has been shown to promote immune and intestinal health. In addition to their anti-inflammatory effects.

A Greek salad is a popular salad all over the world and a well known Greek dish in Greece.

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Best Greek Salad Recipe

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Best Greek Salad Recipe with a dressing, tossed together with lettuce. An easy and crunchy cold side dish in a bowl for braai, barbecue meals.

  • Author: FillMyRecipeBook
  • Prep Time: 25 min
  • Cook Time: 0 min
  • Total Time: 25 min
  • Yield: 4
  • Category: Side dishes, salad
  • Method: no bake

Ingredients

Scale
  1. 1/2 Lettuce, clean and broken in pieces.
  2. 1 English cucumber (cut up nicely)
  3. 1 yellow and green bell pepper (cut up small slices) optional
  4. 2 Cups of halved red cherry tomatoes (mix yellow cherry tomato’s optional)
  5. 50 grams of herbed feta (about  oz) Cut into squares
  6. 1 small red onion (sliced into rings, halved)
  7. salt

Dressing

  1. 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
  2. 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
  3. 2 tsp honey
  4. 2 tsp Dijon mustard
  5. 1 small shallot, minced
  6. 1 clove garlic, minced
  7. 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  8. 1/4 tsp black pepper

Instructions

  1. Clean and wash all veggies and set aside on dish towel and dry.
  2. Cut and chop the various salad ingredients to size. Break up fresh lettuce place in a salad bowl.

Make the dressing 

  1. Add all ingredients to a mason jar. Seal the lid and shake vigorously until the dressing is well mixed and thick. Use immediately or store in the refrigerator for up to 10 days. Shake again before using.
  2. In a larger bowl add the cut tomatoes, cucumber, bell peppers, feta and onion and some lettuce. Toss them to mix up well. You can toss the salad with the dressing or leave in a jug for serving with the salad.
  3. Fill up the lettuce based salad bowl with this Greek salad and serve cold. Serve the salad with meats or braai or barbecue or even meals.

Store in cool place with cling wrap covering the bowl.

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