Greek salad
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Greek salad - about this recipe
If you've been to Greece, Cyprus, Crete you will recognise this as standard fare. Though it's far from standard, it's excellent with barbecues.
Servings
Serves 6
Ingredients
- ½ bell pepper, any colour will do
- ½ cucumber
- 200 g (7 oz) feta cheese
- 3 large tomatoes
- ½ red onion
- 1 cos lettuce
- 100 g (3.5 oz) black olives
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
- 1.5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Pinch of lemon zest
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 80 ml (2.75 fl oz) extra virgin olive oil
Method
- A food processor with a slicing blade is the lazy to make this salad
- Thinly slice the onion into rings
- Roughly chop the lettuce into 2 cm (1") cubes, or slice in a food processor
- Cut the tomatoes into wedges
- Peel the cucumber and slice. If you wish to remove the seeds then cut into quarters, lengthwise and run the knife along the triangle top to cut out the seeds
- Deseed the red pepper and cut into 1 cm (1/2") squares, cut the feta cheese so it is the same size
- Tip the cucumber, chopped peppers, feta cheese, onion rings, lettuce, oilves and parsley into a large bowl
- Whisk up the lemon juice with the salt and pepper
- Add the oil and whisk vigorously for a minute
- Drizzle over the salad
Serving suggestions
Serve chilled

