Feta or fetax cheese is a product made from sheep's milk. Although some manufacturers use cow's and even goat's milk. Fetaxa has an amazing, incomparable sweet and sour taste. It can be compared to cheese. Today we will prepare a salad with fetax. Each hostess will choose his recipe to her liking.
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As a side dish to festive table you can make a salad with feta cheese. As already mentioned, this product has an incomparable taste, but not everyone likes it. Keep this in mind when preparing.
The king of appetizers is the "Greek" salad with fetax. Such a dish will become a full-fledged alternative to vegetable cutting. Today there are many various recipes cooking this salad, we invite you to get to know the culinary classics better.
On a note! If you don’t have fetax cheese on hand, take feta cheese. Do not rush to season the salad with salt, taste it. Olives add spicy notes to the dish, and cheese gives saltiness.
Compound:
- 1 fresh cucumber;
- 1-2 pcs. fresh tomatoes;
- 200 g black and green olives;
- 2 tbsp. l. olive refined oil;
- 150 g of fetax cheese;
- lettuce leaves;
- oregano to taste.
Cooking:
Recipe from a renowned chef
Want to make a delicious salad with fetax? Take note of this recipe. Such an appetizer turns out to be very satisfying, healthy and unusually tasty. Fried to a golden brown chicken fillet fully harmonizes to taste with spicy-salty fetax cheese. Cherry tomatoes will add juiciness to the salad.
On a note! Refined olive oil is chosen as a dressing for salads with feta cheese, natural yogurt without the addition of dyes and flavoring components.
Compound:
- 0.4-0.5 kg chicken fillet;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- 10-12 pcs. fresh cherry tomatoes;
- 100 g of fetax cheese;
- 50 g crackers;
- 5 pieces. lettuce leaves.
Cooking:
On a note! A simple salad with fetax can be prepared according to the author's recipe. The hostesses were so carried away by culinary improvisation that the traditional Greek salad changed beyond recognition. Experiment by adding eggplant, boiled potatoes, arugula, seafood, pickled onions to the salad.
Original appetizer recipe
Salad with fetax and tomatoes is a classic of the culinary genre. And those who love variety will love it. unusual snack with eggplant.
Compound:
- 100 g of fetax cheese;
- 150 g fresh cherry tomatoes;
- ½ tsp grain mustard;
- 1-2 pcs. garlic cloves;
- olive refined oil;
- 50 g of lettuce leaves and arugula;
- half a head of red onion;
- 2 pinches dried thyme;
- salt to taste;
- 150-200 g eggplant;
- 1 tsp balsamic vinegar;
- bunch of parsley.
Cooking:
- First, let's prepare the greens.
- Rinse arugula, parsley and lettuce leaves under running water.
- Lay the herbs out on a towel to dry.
- Grind fetax cheese into equal cubes.
- Cut the red onion into thin half rings.
- Cut the sides off the eggplant.
- Then cut the eggplant into transverse thin slices.
- Cut the washed cherry tomatoes in half.
- Pour chilled filtered water into a deep bowl.
- Add salt.
- We lower the chopped eggplants in salted water and leave for 20-25 minutes.
- Then we drain the water.
- Heat up olive oil in a frying pan.
- Put the eggplant in a pan and fry until cooked.
- In a separate bowl, combine a few tablespoons of refined olive oil with Dijon mustard, balsamic vinegar and thyme.
- Pass the garlic cloves through a press and add to the dressing.
- Mix everything well.
- We tear lettuce leaves and arugula with our hands.
- We spread the greens in a salad bowl, add the fried eggplant and about 2/3 of the cherry tomatoes.
- Add cheese and half of the prepared dressing.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Add the remaining tomatoes and dressing.
- Garnish the salad with chopped parsley.
This sheep cheese is the main highlight Greek cooking. There is a huge variety of dishes in the preparation of which fetax cheese is used. It is especially popular as an ingredient in salads. It is worth considering the recipes of the most popular and delicious of them.
The most famous and many favorite salad where this cheese is used is Greek salad. The recipe for Greek salad with fetax cheese is distinguished by an abundance of vegetables, freshness and usefulness. It is served in restaurants and cafes, although the cooking process is very simple and fast.
For cooking we need:
The technology of preparation is very simple. Tear lettuce leaves into pieces. If there are no leaves, you can use Chinese cabbage or lettuce. Then chop the vegetables into cubes. Slicing should be large so that the juice from the vegetables does not quickly flow out. You don't need to salt the vegetables.
Let's move on to cheese. It needs to be cut into cubes. Onion cut into half rings. Add cheese and onions to vegetables.
Put the resulting salad on a plate and pour the resulting dressing. Can be garnished with three olives. Our salad is ready!
Another famous delicacy with fetax is everyone's favorite "Caesar".
It takes half a kilo to prepare it. chicken fillet, fetax, cherry tomatoes, a quarter of brown bread, 3 tablespoons of grated parmesan, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and black ground pepper. Take as a basis. Cooking will take less than an hour.
Before you start cooking, you need to make croutons. To do this, cut brown bread into small cubes and dry in the oven. If you do not have an oven, you can lightly fry them in a skillet. After the work done, let the crackers cool.
Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces and fry. You can also use smoked chicken for this dish.
Chop lettuce leaves with your hands. Cut the fetax into cubes. Tomatoes need to be divided into halves.
Let's start mixing the ingredients. Take a large platter and put iceberg lettuce on it. On top of it we scatter cheese, meat, cherry tomatoes and crackers. Season with black pepper and add liquid to it. Then sprinkle with some parmesan. If you prefer spicier dishes, add a clove of garlic. It will add spice to the dish.
Due to vegetables and tomatoes, it turns out to be very juicy, as well as healthy.
Ingredients needed for cooking:
Let's start cooking. Drain all the liquid from the can of tuna and place the contents on a plate. Cut the cheese into small pieces. Tear lettuce leaves. Clean the peppers from the contents inside and cut into small cubes. Cut the tomato into pieces too.
For dressing, prepare the sauce. To do this, mix grape seed juice with lemon.
Now combine the ingredients, mix, pepper, pour the prepared sauce and mix everything well again. Delicious salad with fetax cheese and tomatoes is hearty and uncomplicated.
Consider one of delicious salads- crab with fetax cheese.
For him, we need fetax, 200 g of cherry tomatoes, half an onion, or sticks, olive oil, lemon juice, a handful of sugar and herbs (parsley, dill).
We start cooking. Chop the onion very finely. Cut the tomatoes into 4 pieces. Cut the cheese into small cubes. Crab meat also cut into small pieces. Place all ingredients in a salad bowl, but do not mix.
It's best to post them one by one.: meat first, then cherry tomatoes and onions, and scatter pieces of cheese on top. Salad with fetax looks very beautiful and will be a wonderful table decoration.
For him, you need to prepare the sauce. Combine lemon juice, olive oil and sugar and mix well. Allow the mixture to steep for 5 minutes before serving this mixture. Garnish with herbs and pour over the sauce.
It turned out very tasty and satisfying! This dish has a few tricks:
For example, crab meat can be replaced with shrimp, and the chopped components should be the same size.
Fetax can be used for any dishes. But salads with fetax cheese will be appropriate for any celebration!
Attention, only TODAY!
If you are used to taking care of your health, then your menu should definitely include a variety of salads.
Naturally, we are not talking about puff salads, where all layers are abundantly smeared with mayonnaise. Such salads can hardly be classified as healthy.
Delicate Fetaxa cheese made from goat or sheep's milk goes well with fresh or baked vegetables, poultry and other products, which is why salads with Fetaxa cheese are so often prepared. Such salads are both light and satisfying and can serve festive snack and a full meal.
Ingredients:
- Beijing cabbage - 1 pc.,
- green salad - 1 bunch,
- tomatoes - piece,
- onion - 1 head,
- pitted olives - 1 can,
- pitted olives 1 jar,
- Fetax cheese - 400 g,
- parsley - 1 bunch,
- salt to taste
- Bulgarian red pepper - 2 pcs.,
- ground black pepper to taste,
- olive oil to taste
- lemon - ½ pc.
How to make Greek Salad with Fetaxa Cheese:
Take a large salad bowl (to make it easier to mix all the ingredients).
Cut the Chinese cabbage leaves into large squares, about 3x3 cm.
Coarsely chop lettuce leaves and parsley.
Cut onion into half rings.
Cut the bell pepper into squares of about 2x2 cm. (To make the salad look brighter, you can take bell peppers of different colors - red, orange, green).
Cut the tomatoes in half and cut into large slices. (You can take cherry tomatoes and cut them into halves).
Cut the feta cheese into medium cubes.
Add olives and olives to salad bowl.
Salt and pepper the salad to taste.
Drizzle with the juice of half a lemon and olive oil.
Mix all ingredients gently with two spatulas.
Salad with Fetax cheese and eggplant
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 3 pcs.;
- fetax - 400 g;
- green lettuce leaves - 100 g;
- olive oil - 150 g;
- pine nuts - 100 g;
- cherry tomatoes - 100 g;
- salt pepper.
How to make Fetaxa and Eggplant Salad:
Wash the eggplant and cut lengthwise into plates, and then cut the resulting pieces in half again.
Sprinkle them with a little salt and let them stand for 25 minutes to release the bitterness. Grease a baking sheet with olive oil and bake the eggplant until golden brown.
Cut the tomatoes in half. Roast the nuts in a dry frying pan. Cut the fetax into cubes.
We combine all the ingredients, pepper to taste, pour a little olive oil, mix.
Arrange on lettuce leaves and serve.
Salad with Fetax cheese and chicken breast
Ingredients:
- 1 boiled chicken breast
- 1 cucumber
- 1 tomato
- lettuce
- 1 Bell pepper
- 200 g feta cheese
- 10 pieces. pitted olives
- pack of white crackers
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- bunch of dill and parsley
For salad dressing:
- juice of half a lemon
- 3 art. spoons of olive oil
- 3 art. tablespoons of sesame oil
- 2 tbsp. spoons of balsamic vinegar
How to make a salad with Fetax cheese and chicken breast:
Line the dish with washed and dried lettuce leaves. In a separate bowl, mix together the sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers. Add diced chicken breast, fetax cheese and croutons. Cut the olives in half, chop the greens and put in the salad.
Homeland of unusually tasty and light salad– Greece. Such an appetizer is prepared there for all holidays. In Greece, salad has been prepared for many centuries. You can also try it in expensive restaurant, and in a small street cafe. A set of products is available, and the recipe is quite simple. It should be noted that in our open spaces, many housewives fell in love with the classic recipe for Greek salad with fetax. It is prepared not only for the holidays, but also for the daily menu. Salad is served as an appetizer for baked chicken, fish, and also as an independent dish.
The main ingredient is fetax cheese, a type of feta cheese (made from goat's milk). Outwardly, this cheese is very similar to cheese. Produced most often from cow's milk, it has a soft creamy texture. This cheese is not only tasty, but also extremely healthy. The high content of calcium and milk fat is an excellent prevention in the treatment of bones and teeth.
The piquant taste of cheese gives the salad a unique taste. Fetax goes well with vegetables and herbs.
This combination has a beneficial effect on the digestive system.
There are many different recipes for making Greek salad with feta cheese. TO classic recipe lettuce is added green onion, Beijing cabbage, parsley or dill, and olive oil is replaced with vegetable oil. But, the most delicious is a salad prepared according to a classic recipe.
Classic Greek salad recipe with fetax: for 2 servings
Cooking Ingredients:
- cheese - 150 grams (one package);
- two small fresh cucumbers;
- three ripe tomatoes;
- Bulgarian pepper - one red, the other yellow;
- a jar of black pitted olives;
- half a teaspoon of dried oregano (or seasoning "Italian herbs");
- a bunch of fresh basil;
- red onion (salad) - one piece;
- ground pepper, salt - to taste;
- juice of half a lemon;
- extra virgin olive oil - two tablespoons;
- bunch of lettuce.
- wash and dry lettuce leaves;
- spread on a large flat dish;
- put cucumbers and tomatoes on top, cut into half rings;
- wash and peel the bell peppers, cut into thin half rings, beautifully put on cucumbers and tomatoes.
- beautifully spread the onion on the vegetables, cut into very thin rings (you do not need to pickle the onion, as it has a sweetish taste);
- put diced cheese on the prepared vegetable pillow;
- top with chopped basil and olives, chopped rings;
- slightly pepper and salt the salad;
- sprinkle with lemon juice;
- sprinkle with oregano;
- mix gently so as not to tear the lettuce leaves;
- for decoration, put a few whole olives on the salad;
- drizzle with olive oil and serve.
Peking cabbage option
An unusual recipe for a classic Greek salad with feta cheese and Chinese cabbage Lots of people love it, you just have to try it. Pekinka is juicy and crispy, goes well with other vegetables, so the appetizer is tasty and appetizing.
To prepare this salad you need:
- fetax cheese - 300 grams (two packs);
- small Chinese (Beijing) cabbage;
- three bell peppers(you can take different colors to make the salad bright and appetizing);
- half a can of oil and olives, pitted;
- tomatoes, fresh cucumbers - three each;
- bunch of parsley;
- leaf lettuce - one bunch;
- lemon juice - half the fruit;
- red salad onion.
Stage 1. Cheese and vegetables, except for tomatoes and Chinese cabbage, cut into small pieces, preferably the same size;
Stage 2. Finely chop Chinese cabbage. Mash until soft, with salt and a pinch of sugar.
Stage 3. Tear lettuce leaves with your hands;
Stage 4. Cut the tomatoes into slices. If you are using cherry tomatoes, simply cut them in half;
Stage 5. Cut olives and olives into two parts (you can not cut it, but add it whole);
Step 6. Prepare the dressing: mix three tablespoons of olive oil with a pinch of pepper, salt and lemon juice (for a piquant and spicy taste, you can add a clove of garlic passed through a press to the oil);
Step 6. Put all prepared salad ingredients in a large salad bowl. Pour dressing;
Stage 7. Stir and sprinkle with chopped dill;
Step 8. Serve immediately on the table so that the vegetables do not have time to start the juice.
Note to the owner!
- if you want to make the salad more satisfying, then add a little boiled or baked chicken meat to it;
- preparing a salad for a large number of guests? Then serve it in a large glass salad bowl, and cut all the ingredients into small cubes, and tear the lettuce leaves with your hands. Fill with oil and stir;
- instead of fetax, you can use cheese;
- if you do not like the taste of fresh basil, then you can notice it with dill or parsley;
- vegetables can be cut into thin strips;
- a salad prepared in large quantities is better not to season, but to be served separately on the table with oil (vegetable or olive), salt, pepper, Italian herbs or oregano. Then each guest will be able to season the salad to their liking.
Greek salad: original recipe with fetax
To make Greek salad original recipe you need feta cheese. This salted cheese very well sets off the taste of vegetables and gives them a touch of piquancy.
In order to prepare a salad, you need to prepare the following products:
- fetax cheese - 150 grams;
- three tomatoes;
- two fresh cucumbers;
- a small red lettuce;
- large red bell pepper;
- two tablespoons wine vinegar(you can replace the juice of half a lemon);
- 15-17 pieces of black olives with a stone;
- 200 grams of extra virgin olive oil;
- two or three sprigs of fresh basil;
- a teaspoon of dry herbs basil and oregano.
First, let's prepare the dressing so that it is infused, and the aromas of herbs are revealed. For this:
- pour the oil into a small deep plate;
- add wine vinegar;
- grind fresh basil and dry herbs in a mortar;
- add to oil.
Then he proceeds to prepare the products, and collect the salad:
- cut cucumbers into half rings;
- chop the pepper into thin sticks;
- chop the onion into rings;
- cut tomatoes into slices;
- remove the pits from the olives and break them into two parts;
- cheese in small squares (you can just break it with your hands);
- put the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl;
- pour dressing;
- Optionally, you can sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Greek salad recipe with feta cheese
Summer, bright, tasty and vitamin Greek salad is prepared very simply, from the available ingredients. basic and very useful ingredient salad - feta cheese. This is a pickled cheese - fatty, with a pronounced creamy taste. It goes well not only with fresh vegetables, but also with sauerkraut, pickles, bread, and especially with a pear.
Traditionally, feta cheese is made from goat's milk and is not easy to find in stores. Therefore, you can use its analogues - fetax or cheese, which are prepared from cow's milk. But, if you want to make a salad with unforgettable taste then use only real feta cheese.
To prepare a salad, in Greece it is called "rustic", it is necessary to choose only fresh and selected vegetables. It will take no more than fifteen minutes to prepare and collect a Greek snack.
- if you don't have olive oil, you can use homemade vegetable oil with a smell, or sesame;
- if you like more spicy taste salads, you can replace lemon juice with soy sauce;
- the finished salad can be sprinkled with roasted sesame seeds, and in salad dressing add one minced garlic clove;
- dried herbs can be replaced with fresh ones, such as basil;
- if you do not like the taste of oregano, then replace it with thyme;
- there was no red salad onion at hand, it does not matter. Use a regular onion, but before adding it to the salad, sprinkle it with lemon juice and add a pinch of sugar. So you remove excess sharpness and bitterness.
- start your salad dressing. In 200 ml of olive oil, add: a spoonful of lemon juice, a pinch of dried oregano or Provence herbs;
- cut two fresh cucumbers into 2x2 cm cubes;
- cut three ripe tomatoes into slices;
- from olives (10-15 pieces), remove the seeds, and divide them into two parts with your hands;
- cut one sweet pepper into long, thin sticks;
- 200 grams of feta cheese, cut into cubes, the same size as cucumbers;
- chop one red onion into thin half rings;
- collect the salad on a large dish or in a deep salad bowl;
- if you want to serve salad on a dish, then decorate it with a pillow of lettuce leaves;
- if you are preparing a dish for a large number of guests, then it is better to serve an appetizer in a deep salad bowl. And tear the lettuce leaves with your hands;
- pour the appetizer with the sauce prepared in advance, lightly salt, mix;
- and serve immediately.
homemade greek salad dressing
Summer and unusually tasty Greek salad is usually seasoned with olive oil with the addition of various spices. Proper refueling will give vitamin salad piquancy and unusual "zest". When preparing such a successful Greek salad dressing at home, you must use extra virgin olive oil. This oil is prepared from fresh olives, without additional heat treatment. It has a slightly bitter taste, dense in texture and very healthy.
To prepare a classic dressing, use: lemon juice, dry herbs (thyme and oregano). You can diversify the taste of the salad with non-traditional ingredients - pine nuts, sesame seeds (roasted), almonds, honey. Mustard, red pepper, garlic will add piquancy to the dressing.
Classics of the genre - dressing based on olive oil and lemon juice
For cooking you need:
- pour olive oil into a small jar - 150-200 grams;
- add the juice of half a lemon and dry herbs - oregano and thyme;
- add black pepper at the end of the knife;
- shake the contents of the jar thoroughly to mix the ingredients;
- let stand for 20-30 minutes.
Spicy dressing with yogurt and capers
To cook an unusual, but very delicious dressing necessary:
- natural yogurt - 300 ml;
- a handful of capers;
- half a teaspoon of brown sugar;
- two st. spoons of marinade from green olives;
- two cloves of garlic, passed through a press;
- half a teaspoon of ground black pepper;
- dessert spoon of balsamic vinegar;
- Mix all dressing ingredients thoroughly.
Dressing with soy sauce
Cooked dressing can be stored in the refrigerator for several weeks. Just keep it preferably in a glass container.
To make soy dressing for Greek salad at home, you need:
- mix four tablespoons soy sauce with two tablespoons of honey (use only liquid honey, and if it is candied, then melt it in a water bath);
- grind thoroughly so that the honey dissolves;
- add three tablespoons of lemon juice;
- mix thoroughly again;
- Gently beat the dressing with a whisk, pour in half a glass of olive oil in a thin stream.
Refueling can be used for any vegetable snack. Also dressings can be served with baked meat (fish) or pasta.
Make one of the recipes for the classic Greek salad with fetax or feta at home, use your own dressing, and you will have one of your favorite dishes.
Light, fresh Greek salad - it's very tasty and healthy! We have collected for you best recipes salad with Fetax cheese.
An ideal option for a quick, but restaurant-style dish in terms of serving and taste is Greek salad. The recipe for a classic Greek salad with fetax is inexpensive to prepare and amazingly tasty.
- Fetax cheese - 100 g
- Fresh tomato - 3 pcs
- Fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
- Lettuce leaves - 100 g
- Sweet red pepper - 1 pc.
- Black olives - 50 g
- Green olives - 50 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
Refueling:
- Olive oil - ½ cup
- Dry oregano or Italian herbs - ½ tsp
- Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.
- Salt, pepper - to taste
Tear the lettuce leaves into a salad bowl with your hands. A knife will oxidize them and make them sluggish, so it's best to chop that way. As lettuce leaves, you can take lollo rossa lettuce, and lettuce, and even Chinese cabbage leaves.
Cut vegetables into cubes - sweet pepper, cucumber and tomatoes. try to do coarse cut, because otherwise the juice will quickly flow out of the vegetables and the Greek salad will be stale in appearance. Salad do not salt!
Make a Greek salad dressing. The classic recipe with feta cheese is usually seasoned with a mixture of olive oil and lemon juice. Add herbs and spices to taste.
If your fetax has been left open in the refrigerator for a long time and has become dry, it can be resuscitated. To do this, fill the cheese with kefir at the rate of ½ cup of kefir per 100 g of fetax, leave for 20 minutes and then drain the kefir. Cut the cheese into cubes, and onions into thin half rings. Mix with vegetables.
Take a serving plate. Place lettuce on top, top with a few black and green olives, and drizzle with 2-3 tablespoons of dressing.
Recipe 2: Greek salad with olives and Fetax cheese
- fresh tomatoes - 1 pc.
- bell pepper - 1 pc.
- fresh cucumber - 1 pc.
- onion - 1 pc.
- green salad - 1 bunch
- olives - 20 pcs
- Fetax cheese - 70 gr
- lemon - 1 pc.
- olive oil - 3 tbsp.
- oregano
- ground red pepper
Peel the red onion, cut into half rings. If desired, you can pour boiling water over the onion for a few minutes if it is hard or bitter.
Wash the tomato, cut into large cubes.
Wash the cucumber, if necessary - peel the skin, if it is bitter or rough, cut into large pieces.
Wash red pepper, cut into large pieces.
Put red onion, tomato, cucumber and red pepper in a bowl.
Drizzle the vegetables with olive oil and drizzle with lemon juice, sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano to taste, mix well.
Wash lettuce, pat dry and place on a plate. Lay vegetables on top.
Fetax cheese cut into large cubes, put on vegetables.
Arrange olives on top of vegetables. Salt and pepper again to taste.
Greek salad with Fetax cheese is ready! Treat yourself and your loved ones to its excellent taste. Bon Appetit!
Recipe 3: Greek Cherry Tomato Salad (with photo)
- Fetax cheese - 200 g
- Cherry tomatoes - 300 g
- Sweet pepper (red, yellow) - 3 pcs.
- Onion - 1 small onion
- Seedless olives
- lettuce leaves
- For refueling:
- Olive oil - 5 tbsp. spoons
- Lemon juice - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Basil (fresh or dry) - 1 teaspoon
- Salt, ground black pepper - to taste
Peel the pepper from partitions and seeds, cut into strips.
Wash cherry tomatoes, dry, cut into halves.
Peel the onion, cut into half rings.
Combine pepper, tomatoes, chopped onion, sprinkle with salt, mix.
For dressing, mix oil, lemon juice and basil.
Fill the salad.
Wash lettuce, dry and chop.
Cut the fetax into cubes.
Put the salad on lettuce leaves, top with fetax, olives, sprinkle with pepper. Greek salad with feta cheese is ready. Bon Appetit.
Recipe 4: Greek salad with Chinese cabbage and feta cheese
- fetax cheese or salted cheese - 150 grams,
- tomatoes - 200 grams,
- sweet pepper, red - 1 pc.,
- large fresh cucumber - 1 pc.,
- onion - 1 pc.,
- black olives - 150 grams,
- Beijing cabbage - 200 grams,
- real olive oil - 3-4 tables. l.
Shinkuyu Chinese cabbage in thin stripes, I use the white part minimally, as it is thick and not so tender. I use the green part, which is best suited for such a salad.
I cut the tomatoes that I washed and dried into medium-sized slices, since my tomatoes themselves are small. If the tomatoes are large, then it would be more expedient to cut them not so large, for example, into cubes.
I take on the rest of the products, there will be no problems with them: I chop a fresh cucumber into slices, chop the onion into thin half-rings, cut the washed red, sweet pepper into squares (removing the seeds and tail in it), cut the olive into halves along.
I put all the products in a bowl, add coarsely diced feta to them.
In the salad I use the real olive oil, preferably unrefined and cold direct pressing.
I lightly mix the Greek salad with Beijing cabbage so that oil gets on each vegetable, I transfer it to a bowl in which I will serve it to the table. It will be convenient to serve such a salad in portions to each guest.
Immediately after slicing, after pouring oil, I serve the salad to the table.
Recipe 5, simple: red onion and feta cheese salad
- tomatoes 6 pcs.
- red onion 1 pc.
- cucumbers 3 pcs.
- salt, pepper to taste
- fetax packaging
- olive oil for dressing
- greens (we have parsley, you can also dill and cilantro)
- balsamic dressing cream
Cut the tomato into pieces. Drain the excess liquid so that there is not a lot of water in the salad.
Cucumber cut into pieces.
Mix tomatoes and cucumbers.
We clean the red onion, cut it.
Put in salad bowl with vegetables.
We cut the greens and put it in the salad.
We cut the fetax into pieces.
Add fetax to salad. You can also put olives in the salad, but there are those among us who do not like them, so we do without this ingredient.
Now it's time for the Greek salad dressing. Add olive oil.
And balsamic cream italian sauce, which is boiled down balsamic vinegar with and without various additives).
Add spices (we have salt and a mixture of peppers).
Serve chilled salad with meat and enjoy the wonderful combination of flavors!
Recipe 6: Vegetable Greek Salad (with photo step by step)
- Tomatoes - 250 gr.;
- Bulgarian pepper - 150 gr.;
- Cucumbers - 200 gr.;
- Onion - 70 gr.;
- Fetax cheese - 100 gr.;
- Pitted olives - 50 gr.;
- Olive oil - 3 tablespoons;
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
Crescent cucumbers.
Straw pepper.
Onion cut into half rings.
Mix olive oil and lemon juice.
Cheese cut into cubes.
We combine the ingredients and season. Lay the cheese on top of the salad. Because salty cheese, lettuce is not salty.
Decorate the salad with olives. Bon Appetit!
Recipe 7: Greek Olive and Cheese Salad
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- Cucumber - 2-3 pcs.
- Fetax cheese - 250 g
- Pitted olives - 1 can
- Onion (sweet) - 0.5-1 pc.
- Olive oil (or sunflower) - 2 tbsp.
- Lemon juice or apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp.
- Oregano, ground pepper - to taste
All ingredients need to be cut into large pieces, since initially it was simple rustic salad and the vegetables were cut into large cubes, and the cheese was put in a whole block, because it crumbles easily and everyone kneaded it with a spoon.
We chop the tomatoes. By the way, the salad should not be bitter and all vegetables should be sweet, even onions.
Cut cucumbers into cubes or circles. If they are not young, then be sure to clean them from seeds and, especially, from the bitter peel.
Then chop the onion.
Cheese should also be cut into large cubes.
We do not mix all the ingredients, but simply put them in a salad bowl in the same order as they crumbled.
Lay olives on top.
Now let's prepare the dressing. In a glass, mix olive oil, vinegar or lemon juice, oregano and ground black pepper. Drizzle it over the salad. Salt is not needed, as the fetax is very salty.
Recipe 8, Step by Step: Sweet Cheesy Greek Salad
- fetax - 200 grams,
- black olives - 150 grams,
- cucumbers - 100 grams,
- tomatoes - 100 grams,
- red, sweet pepper - 150 grams,
- onion - 1 pc.,
- lettuce leaves - 1 bunch,
- lemon juice - 2 tables. l.,
- olive oil - 3 tables. l.
I wash fresh cucumbers with water, cut off all the tails, chop, cut into a crescent moon, so that it is more convenient to eat the salad.
My tomatoes and cut into slices. My tomatoes are not very large, so the slices turned out to be small.
I crumble red sweet pepper into squares, removing the insides, partitions, seeds and tails. The red color goes well with the green color of cucumbers, the black color of olives and the white color of cheese.
Thinly chopped onion, it will give the salad a certain sharpness.
I cut the fetax coarsely so that the squares come out. The cheese is soft, so I slowly press it with a knife.
I take a deep bowl, put vegetables into it: cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers.
Drizzle vegetables with olive oil and add lemon juice. When I use lemon juice, I do not add salt, but you can taste it to your taste and, if necessary, add salt to the salad. I stir. Why am I dressing a salad without cheese? Because if you mix the salad often with cheese, then the cheese can fall apart, and it will become small crumbs, otherwise I will keep it in the best possible shape.
