Greek Salad
A traditional Greek salad with feta cheese, olives, tomatoes, onions. The perfect summer dish!
Ingredients
- 2 lb very ripe Mediterranean tomatoes
- 6 oz feta cheese
- 2 oz black olives
for the dressing
- Bunch spring onions
- 4 floz olive oil
- 6 floz non-olive oil
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
Instructions
- Wash the tomatoes and slice them thickly downwards. Layer them in overlapping rows
- Cut the feta cheese into half inch (1 cm) cubes, sprinkle over the salad, and sprinkle the black olives on top. Wash, trim and chop the spring onions into small pieces and wash and chop the parsley.
- Put the spring onions, parsley, salt and sugar, oil, lemon juice and wine vinegar into a liquidiser and give it a quick whizz until you have a lovely flecked green dressing.
- Pour the dressing over the tomatoes, feta cheese and olives, leave it if you can for about 20 minutes, then serve it with Greek bread with sesame seeds baked into the crust or good granary bread.
Calories: 838 kcal
Carbohydrates: 14 g
Protein: 8 g
Fat: 86g
Saturated Fat: 17 g
Cholesterol: 38 mg
Sodium: 1000 mg
Potassium: 611 mg
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 9 g
Vitamin A: 2130 IU
Vitamin C: 45 mg
Calcium: 248 mg
Iron: 2 mg