Feta is a traditional Greek cheese that has been made from sheep and goat milk for many centuries.
It is kept for at least three months in salt brine, which is why it gets a characteristic salty taste and pleasant smell. The fat content of cheese is from 30% to 60%, so it can not be attributed to dietary varieties. However, you can’t eat a lot of feta, it is too salty, but it is ideal for
making salads. Salad with feta cheese - a visiting card 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 all the same with a traditional
Greek salad - where would it be without it! For him we need:
- 300 g feta cheese;
- 3 cucumbers;
- 3 medium tomatoes or 9 cherry tomatoes;
- 1 bell pepper;
- half sweet onion;
- a jar of olives or olives;
- olive oil;
- fresh basil;
- sea salt.
Cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers are washed and cut into small pieces. We clean the onion and cut into half rings. Fetu cut into cubes. We spread the vegetables and cheese in a deep plate. Finely chop the fresh basil and add to the salad. Put olives or olives to your taste: love - more, not their fan - less. Add a little olive oil and sea salt to the salad. Mix it well and serve. Such a salad with feta cheese will be the perfect complement to meat or fish, and can also be an independent dish, like a
light dinner or afternoon snack. In any case, this healthy, tasty and very easy to prepare dish will be within the power of even a novice hostess.
Warm Feta Salad
Sometimes you want to have a quick bite to eat, but so that the food is healthy, tasty, warm, hearty, and light. The task is not an easy one, especially when such a snack needs to be quickly prepared. But there is a solution! A warm salad with feta cheese will become for you in this case a real lifesaver. To prepare it, we need:
- a can of canned beans;
- a can of canned tuna ;
- 200 g feta cheese;
- 2 tomatoes;
- clove of garlic;
- a bunch of greens (dill, parsley);
- vegetable oil;
- salt pepper.
Heat the pan and pour a little vegetable oil on it. Finely chop the garlic and lightly fry it. Add the jar beans along with the liquid in which they were in the pan to the garlic. Cover and let simmer over low heat. Meanwhile, scald the tomatoes with boiling water and peel them, finely chop and add to the beans. Cover the pan 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 periodically crushed so that they soften faster. When the beans are ready, transfer them to a deep plate. While it has not cooled, add the rest of the ingredients: chopped tuna, finely chopped greens and feta cubes. Mix everything thoroughly, add a little olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. From the heat of the beans, the cheese should melt slightly, which will give this dish even more softness. Also remember that all salads with feta cheese should not be abundantly salted, because cheese already contains enough salt. And if you want to make it more fresh, then before cooking, hold the cheese for about half an hour in mineral water or milk. For the first time having prepared such
dishes of Greek cuisine, you will certainly want to try other recipes for salads with feta cheese. Or you can invent them yourself or just add a little of this cheese to your favorite salad. Enjoy your meal!