Feta cheese salad: fast, just delicious

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Feta is a traditional Greek cheese that has been made from sheep's and goat's milk for centuries.

It is aged for at least three months in s alty brine, which gives it its characteristic s alty taste and pleasant smell. The fat content of cheese is from 30% to 60%, so it cannot be attributed to dietary varieties. However, you can’t eat a lot of feta, it’s too s alty, but it is ideal for making salads. Salad with feta cheese is a hallmark of Greek cuisine. It can be ordered in almost any cafe around the world. But this is not the only recipe in which feta perfectly emphasizes the rest of the ingredients. There are many such dishes, and I want to introduce you to some of them. But let's start with the traditional Greek salad - where without it! For him we need:

• 300g feta cheese;
• 3 cucumbers;
• 3 medium tomatoes or 9 cherry tomatoes;
• 1 bell pepper;
• half of a sweet onion;
• a jar of olives or olives;
• olive oil;
• fresh basil;
• sea s alt.

Cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers wash andcut into small pieces. Peel the onion and cut into half rings. Feta cut into cubes. Put vegetables and cheese in a deep plate. Finely chop fresh basil and add to salad. Put olives or black olives to your taste: if you like - more, if you are not a fan of them - less. Add some olive oil and sea s alt to the salad. Mix it well and serve. This salad with feta cheese will be an ideal addition to meat or fish, and can also be an independent dish, as a light dinner or afternoon snack. In any case, this he althy, tasty and very easy-to-prepare dish will be within the power of even a novice hostess.

Warm salad with feta cheese

Sometimes you want to have a quick bite, but at the same time the food is he althy, tasty, warm, satisfying, and light. The task is not an easy one, especially when such a snack also needs to be prepared quickly. But there is a solution! A warm salad with feta cheese will be a real lifesaver for you in this case. To prepare it, we need:

• canned beans;
• canned tuna;
• 200g feta cheese;
• 2 tomatoes;
• garlic clove;
• bunch of greens (dill, parsley);
• vegetable oil;
• s alt, pepper.

Heat a frying pan and pour some vegetable oil on it. Finely chop the garlic and lightly fry it. Add the beans from the jar to the garlic pan along with the liquid in which it was. Cover and leavesimmer on a slow fire. In the meantime, scald the tomatoes with boiling water and remove the skin from them, finely chop and add to the beans. Cover the pan with a lid again and simmer the vegetables until the tomatoes are completely soft and turn into tomato paste. At the same time, they need to be constantly stirred and crushed periodically so that they soften faster. When the beans are ready, transfer them to a deep plate. Before it cools down, add the rest of the ingredients: chopped tuna, finely chopped greens and feta cubes. Mix everything thoroughly, add a little olive oil and s alt and pepper to taste. The heat from the beans should melt the cheese slightly, which will give this dish even more softness. Also remember that all salads with feta cheese should not be s alted abundantly, because the cheese already contains enough s alt. And if you want to make it more insipid, then before cooking, hold the cheese for about half an hour in mineral water or milk. Having prepared such Greek dishes for the first time, you will certainly want to try other salad recipes with feta cheese. And you can come up with them yourself or just add some of this cheese to your favorite salad. Bon appetit!