Greek salad is a classic step-by-step recipe.

Greek salad - a dish known to everyone and beloved by many. In the very same Greece, this salad is called "rustic", because its composition necessarily includes fresh vegetables, it is desirable not so long ago torn from the bed. Mandatory component, except vegetable, sheep cheese - Feta. This cheese is soft, so it is cut by cubes and lay out from above the salad so as not to spoil the appearance of the dish.

In the traditional version, vegetables are cut by quite large pieces. But you, of course, can solve this question in favor of your taste and preferences. The most classic seasoning for Greek salad is Orego, they are customary to sprinkle a ready-made dish.

When the salad is eaten, a mixture of refueling and vegetable juice will remain on the bottom. Traditionally, these "residues" are wetted with white bread.

Classic Greek salad - photo recipe.

The basis of Greek salad is fresh vegetables, then traditionally put feta cheese and make a refueling of olive oil with lemon. Make such a salad is very simple and fast. And it turns out delicious, useful and suited enough. In the summer season of vegetables, the Greek salad must be done, well, at least once ... But, I'm sure, trying it once, you will often pour yourself and your loved ones with such a dish.

For the preparation of Greek salad, take such ingredients:

• tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• cucumbers - 3 pcs.
• sweet pepper - 1 pc.
• red bow - 1 pc.
• feta cheese - 200 gr.
• olives without a bone - 150 gr.
• salad leaves - 3 pcs.
• lemon - ½
• olive oil - 4 tbsp.
• black Pepper, Salt

Method for preparing classic Greek salad.

First wash all the vegetables. Tomatoes and cucumbers cut down her slices, fold together into the salad bowl.

Pepper Clean the seeds and cut the lumps, a salad bow - thin half rings. These vegetables also put in a salad bowl to tomatoes and cucumbers.

In a separate cup, pour 4 tablespoons of olive oil, squeeze the juice from the halves of the lemon. Sung and stick to taste refueling, mix. Fill the resulting sliced \u200b\u200bvegetables and mix well all together.

Salad leaves wash and dry paper towels. At the bottom of the plates, put the leaves prepared in this way, on top of them put vegetables with refueling.

Feta cheese cut into cubes and lay out vegetables on top. Greek salad is not mixed with cheese, since the cubes will simply lose their shape, because the cheese is soft. Also decorate the salad with olives. On this preparation of Greek salad ends. You can serve it to the table. Bon Appetit!

Preparation options for Greek salad.

Above, I described in detail the classic version of the preparation of Greek salad. But, as you know, every hostess always brings something to a famous recipe. Thus, hundreds of options for the preparation of the same dish are born. It also happens with Greek salad.

Not everyone makes a Greek salad with lettuce leaves. For the reason that in our area the salad is quite expensive. Therefore, if you do the Greek salad not on the festive table, but for the usual dinner, you can do without this ingredient.

Feta cheese - good and expensive cheese. If you failed to find it or want to save, you can replace it with fetax or fetaki cheese. True, there are vegetable fats in the last two cheeses, which translates them into the discharge of cheese products. Also, FETU can be replaced by Brynez.Only in this case do not reduce the refueling, consider that the cheese is quite salted.

The refueling for Greek salad can also be done differently. One option is to add finely chopped garlic and dried oregano to olive oil with lemon. Also, a special aroma of Salat will give basil and rosemary. Sometimes instead of lemon in olive oil, a wine or balsamic vinegar is put.

Greek salad: video recipe.

Preparing with love and you will have a delicious Greek salad! Bon Appetit!