Greek salad

Business card of Greek cuisine This dish is rightly considered a visiting card of Greek cuisine. But this did not stop this Greek visitor from settling on the tables of many cuisines around the world. This is not surprising, because a real Greek salad, prepared with all the subtleties of the recipe, is a dish of incredible taste and aroma. The history of the Greek salad is both majestic and simple. He came to us from ancient times, roughly from the era of Hellenism. Ingredients of the salad may seem quite simple, but combined together and properly seasoned, they perfectly play and harmonize among themselves. Greek salad is considered a simple dish, all vegetables need to be cut as large as possible. But to prepare the right dressing is a real art. In this salad you need to use only genuine olive oil of cold pressing, as well as spices - certainly oregano, basil, which can also be called a visiting card of Greek cuisine. The uniqueness of the Greek salad recipe is also that while traveling the world it has not changed much. Chefs from around the world make their minor changes to the recipe, often experimenting with the ingredients of the dressing, less often with the olives, but the main ingredients, leaving untouched. Greek salad can be found in almost any cafe or restaurant, but also just cook it yourself and surprise your family with a simple, but genuinely ingenious recipe.

Business card of Greek cuisine This dish is rightly considered a visiting card of Greek cuisine. But this did not stop this Greek visitor from settling on the tables of many cuisines around the world. This is not surprising, because a real Greek salad, prepared with all the subtleties of the recipe, is a dish of incredible taste and aroma. The history of the Greek salad is both majestic and simple. He came to us from ancient times, roughly from the era of Hellenism. Ingredients of the salad may seem quite simple, but combined together and properly seasoned, they perfectly play and harmonize among themselves. Greek salad is considered a simple dish, all vegetables need to be cut as large as possible. But to prepare the right dressing is a real art. In this salad you need to use only genuine olive oil of cold pressing, as well as spices - certainly oregano, basil, which can also be called a visiting card of Greek cuisine. The uniqueness of the Greek salad recipe is also that while traveling the world it has not changed much. Chefs from around the world make their minor changes to the recipe, often experimenting with the ingredients of the dressing, less often with the olives, but the main ingredients, leaving untouched. Greek salad can be found in almost any cafe or restaurant, but also just cook it yourself and surprise your family with a simple, but genuinely ingenious recipe.

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes 2 pcs.
• Cucumber 1 pc.
• Pepper sweet 1 pc.
• Onion purple 1 pc.
• Olives without seeds 150 g
• Salad green 1 beam
• Cheese Feta 100 g
• Black pepper powder 2 tsp.
• Olive oil 80 ml

Instructions

• Step 1 For Greek salad we need - tomatoes, cucumber, sweet pepper, purple onion, Feta cheese, olives, lettuce and olive oil.
• Step 2 Wash tomatoes and cut into cubes. For salad tomatoes should be taken with dense flesh.
• Step 3 Fresh cucumber to wash and cut into cubes, if the skin of cucumbers is very dark and hard, then it is better to clean it.
• Step 4 Wash sweet pepper, take out the middle and cut into cubes. To make a Greek salad it was more beautiful to take one yellow pepper and the second red one.
• Step 5 Cut the olives into halves.
• Step 6 Onion purple sweet peel and cut into half rings.
• Step 7 Cut the cheese into cubes, as well as Feta cheese, you can take the cheese.
• Step 8 Mix all the products carefully, season with olive oil, lay them on the lettuce leaves and top with the Greek salad, put Feta cheese on top and add freshly ground black pepper.