Greek cheese salad: selection of ingredients and recipe

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

Greek salad is a favorite dish for many people who prefer he althy and wholesome food, vegetarians. It is especially good to cook it in the warm season.

In the classic composition of the dish: fresh vegetables (tomato, cucumber, sweet pepper, onion, olives, lettuce), cheese (feta), olive oil, spices, lemon juice.

There are also several varieties of Greek salad recipes, which, in addition to the main ingredients, add chicken, croutons, green olives, cheese (instead of Greek feta) and so on.

Several variations of your favorite dish will be discussed in our article.

Description

The advantages of the Greek cheese salad, in addition to being tasty and he althy, are also: quick preparation and relatively low cost.

And you can also experiment with the ingredients: choose red or yellow tomatoes, green sweetpepper or red, yellow.

Same with dressing: lemon juice or balsamic vinegar, assorted spices (can be used to your own taste).

As for cheese - this article will describe how to cook a Greek salad with cheese - you can buy ready-made or make at home from milk (cow, goat).

A few tips for making salad:

1. In order for the olives to shine beautifully in the dish, it is recommended to coat them with vegetable oil (this also contributes to the fact that the component will be fresh for a long time).
2. Red (Y alta) onion is used for the dish, because it tastes sweeter. If you choose white (bitter), then it is recommended to scald the vegetable with boiled hot water before cooking.
3. Components can be cut into cubes or triangles according to your preference.

Classic cheese recipe

In Greece, this dish is called "Country Salad", because the main ingredients come from the villages:

• vegetables grown in agricultural areas of the country;
• cheese made from local milk (sheep, goat);
• olive oil squeezed from the main Greek ingredient - olives.

To prepare a recipe for a Greek salad with feta cheese and black olives (olives), you need:

1. Cut into large cubes tomatoes (300 grams), cucumbers (300 grams), sweet peppers (200 grams).
2. Cheese (130 grams) also chopcubes - medium size.
3. Prepare sweet and sour cream - an addition to the dressing of the dish: pour balsamic vinegar (150 milliliters) into a cooking container, add 50 grams of sugar, boil and evaporate until it becomes sticky.
4. Chop finely fresh dill (10 grams) and lettuce (30 grams).
5. Put all the ingredients in a salad bowl (tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, feta cheese and herbs).
6. Black olives (large size recommended) pitted (20 pieces) cut into halves or whole put into a container with the rest of the ingredients.
7. Add 50 milliliters of olive oil and sweet and sour cream to the dish, sprinkle with black pepper, mix.

Salad with green olives and lemon juice

This version of the Greek cheese salad recipe is also incredibly tasty and easy to prepare.

Components and steps:

1. Prepare the vegetables (150 grams of tomato, 150 grams of cucumbers, 80 grams of sweet pepper), wipe with a paper towel.
2. Chop vegetables and cheese (70 grams) into medium-sized triangles.
3. Put lettuce leaves in a dish for this dish, and components on top.
4. Add 10 pitted green olives.
5. Chop red onion (50 grams) into half rings, pour into a dish.
6. Prepare ingredients for sauce (for dressing Greek salad): chop fresh basil (2 grams), garlic (3 grams).
7. Pour olive oil (30 milliliters) and lemon juice (15milliliters), add garlic and basil, as well as s alt (3 grams) and ground black pepper (1 gram), mix and season the dish.
8. May be served.

With croutons

A fragrant and original dish that will decorate any festive or everyday table. And the addition of such an ingredient as fresh slices of toasted loaf will add a special piquancy to the Greek salad with feta cheese.

Cooking and ingredients:

1. Chop half a loaf (white bread) into small cubes and dry in the oven.
2. Prepare vegetables for the salad: tomatoes (400 grams), cucumbers (400 grams), sweet peppers (200 grams), red onions (100 grams) - cut into medium cubes.
3. Put in a salad bowl, add pitted black olives (25 pieces) and warm croutons.
4. Cheese (250 grams) cut into cubes and add to the rest of the ingredients.
5. Chop fresh greens (30 grams) and pour into salad.
6. Prepare the dressing: In a separate bowl, combine olive oil (100 ml), lemon juice (40 ml), oregano (2 grams), black pepper (2 grams) and s alt (6 grams).
7. Pour dressing over salad.

Total cooking time - 20 minutes. Everything is simple and fast.

With chicken

For those who love hearty salads, we offer another version of the recipe "Greek salad with cheese" - with chicken. This is a sufficient amount of vitamins, as well as nutrition, thanks to the meat ingredient.

Cooking:

1. Chop the chicken fillet (150 grams) into medium cubes and fry in vegetable oil (20 milliliters), cool.
2. Cook croutons in the oven - from the soft part of white bread or a long loaf (150 grams), after chopping it into cubes.
3. Put prepared lettuce leaves (30 grams) in a deep plate.
4. Tomatoes (200 grams) and cucumbers (200 grams) cut into cubes and placed on the leaves.
5. Chop sweet pepper (100 grams) into medium pieces and add to vegetables.
6. Red onion (50 grams) cut into thin half rings and pour into a plate with the rest of the ingredients.
7. Cheese (100 grams) cut into cubes and put on top - on vegetables.
8. Gently mix salad.
9. Add pitted black olives (70 grams), croutons and fried chicken fillet.
10. Sprinkle with s alt, black pepper and oregano.

Summarizing

Using cheese instead of classic feta for making Greek salad is more typical of the Slavic people. Of course, the taste of these cheeses is slightly different, although both are made from sheep's and goat's milk (there is already a recipe for feta cheese also from cow).

One is soft and tender (Greek feta) and the other is juicy and s alty. But as a result, the salad is equally delicious with each of them.

Initially, brynza is a cheese that was first made in Turkey. And then in Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia. The technology is quite simple. But the most important thing is that cheese is very useful for the human body (especially for children).

This product has a high percentage of calcium, protein, B vitamins, also A and E, potassium and fluorine s alts, trace elements, which makes the Greek cheese salad even more refreshing and healing.