23rd May 2020

Simple Greek Salad

This is always a winner in our house, both my wife and I love Greek food and this is so simple and quick to make. We tend to make a huge bowl of it and leave it in the fridge – yum!

Simple Greek Salad
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Simple Greek Salad

Recipe by CraigCourse: Main, SidesCuisine: GreekDifficulty: Easy
Prep time

10

minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 large vine salad tomatoes

  • 1 whole cucumber

  • 100 – 150g Greek style feta cheese

  • 1 red onion

  • 350g either Halkidiki olives, or queen olives

  • 150g pitted black olives (optional)

  • 3 tbsp olive oil

  • 1 tbsp dried oregano

  • salt and pepper

Directions

  • Finely slice the red onion and add to a large bowl
  • Cut the tomatoes into 8, which should be chunks around 1″ or so maybe slightly smaller and add to the bowl.
  • Cut the cucumber into similar sized chunks as the tomatoes and add these too.
  • If using jarred olives, it’s a good idea to drain these into a sieve and rinse with cold water. This helps get rid of some of the brine taste. Add the olives to the bowl
  • Crumble in the feta so you have some chunks, but not too many and also don’t make it too fine.
  • Add the oregano, olive oil and plenty of salt and pepper and then mix together well to combine. Taste as you go, as you don’t want it too salty but it will take quite a bit.
  • That’s it – done! I normally prepare it about an hour in advance on the first day to let everything combine and then cover it and leave it. Keep it in the fridge when not eating it, but when you want it again I tend to bring it out about an hour before hand as this should really be served at room temperature, not cold – it’s much better that way.
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