Greek salad with cheese: selection of ingredients and recipe

Greek salad is a dish that is favorite for many people who prefer healthy 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, bell pepper, onions, 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, crackers, green olives, feta cheese (instead of Greek feta) and so on.

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

Description

The advantages of Greek salad with feta cheese, in addition to goodness and usefulness, are also: the speed of preparation and relatively low cost.

You can also experiment with the components: choose red tomatoes or yellow, green bell pepper or red, yellow.

The same thing with dressing: lemon juice or balsamic vinegar, a variety of spices (you can use it to your taste).

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

A few recommendations 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 helps to keep the component fresh for a long time).
2. For the dish, red (Yalta) onions are used, since it tastes sweeter. If you choose white (bitter), then before cooking it is recommended to scald the vegetable with boiled hot water.
3. Components can be cut into cubes or triangles based on your own preferences.

Classic recipe with feta cheese

In Greece, this dish is called "Village Salad", since the main components are supplied from the villages:

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

To prepare a Greek salad with feta cheese and olives (olives), you must:

1. Cut into large cubes tomatoes (300 grams), cucumbers (300 grams), sweet pepper (200 grams).
2. Cheese (130 grams) is also chopped into cubes - medium size.
3. Prepare a sweet and sour cream - addition to dressing: 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 greens).
6. Black olives (recommended large size) without stones (20 pieces) cut into halves or put in a container in the 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 recipe for Greek salad with feta cheese is also incredibly tasty and easy to prepare.

Components and steps:

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

With crackers

Fragrant and original dish that will decorate any festive or everyday table. And the addition of such an ingredient as fresh slices of fried loaf will give Greek salad with feta cheese a special piquancy.

Preparation and components:

1. Cut into small cubes half a loaf (white bread) and dry in the oven.
2. Prepare vegetables for the salad: tomatoes (400 grams), cucumbers (400 grams), sweet pepper (200 grams), red onions (100 grams) - chop into medium cubes.
3. Put in a salad bowl, add black seedless olives (25 pieces) and warm crackers.
4. Cut the feta cheese (250 grams) into cubes and add to the rest of the ingredients.
5. Grind fresh greens (30 grams) and pour into a salad.
6. Prepare the dressing: in a separate container, combine olive oil (100 milliliters), lemon juice (40 milliliters), oregano (2 grams), ground black pepper (2 grams) and salt (6 grams).
7. Pour salad dressing.

The total cooking time is 20 minutes. Everything is simple and fast.

With chicken

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

Cooking:

1. Chop the chicken fillet with medium cubes (150 grams) and fry in vegetable oil (20 milliliters), cool.
2. Prepare crackers in the oven - from the soft part of white bread or loaf (150 grams), after grinding it into cubes.
3. Put prepared lettuce leaves (30 grams) in a deep plate.
4. Cut tomatoes (200 grams) and cucumbers (200 grams) into cubes and place on leaves.
5. Sweet pepper (100 grams) chopped in medium pieces and add to vegetables.
6. Cut red onion (50 grams) into thin half rings and pour into a plate with the rest of the ingredients.
7. Chop feta cheese (100 grams) into cubes and put on top - on vegetables.
8. Gently mix the salad.
9. Add black pitted olives (70 grams), crackers and fried chicken.
10. Sprinkle with salt, black pepper and oregano.

Summarizing

To use brynza to prepare a Greek salad instead of a classic feta is more typical of the Slavic people. Of course, these cheeses are slightly different in taste, although both are made from sheep and goat milk (there is already a recipe for feta cheese from cow).

One is soft and tender (Greek feta), and the second is juicy and brackish. But as a result, the salad turns out to be equally tasty with each of them.

Initially, feta cheese 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 feta 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 fluoride salts, trace elements, which makes Greek salad with feta cheese even more refreshing and healing.