Greek Salad With Lettuce Recipe

GREEK SALAD WITH LETTUCE RECIPE

The Greek cuisine has numerous salad recipes,  easy to prepare, with authentic  Mediterranean flavors.  It’s not difficult to find an awesome  Greek salad with lettuce recipe.

One of my favorite salad recipes is a popular Greek recipe called “Salata tou agrou”. The name of this colorful salad means salad from the field/ from a grassy area  (agros = grassy area, field). The best period to prepare this salad is in May, due to the availability of fresh ingredients. Luckily, with few changes in the ingredients, you can enjoy this fantastic salad whole year around. It can be perfectly combined with anything baked.

Servings: 4

SALAD INGREDIENTS:

• 2 medium romaine lettuce, chopped
• 200gr Feta cheese, chopped into medium cubes
• 16 Kalamata olives, without pits, chopped
• 4 fresh onions, finely chopped (the white and tender green part)
• 2 medium carrots, preferably organic, grated
• 12 cherry tomatoes, cut in the middle
• 1 tbsp minced fresh dill
• 1tbsp minced fresh parsley
• Salt, pepper

DRESSING INGREDIENTS:

• 100 ml of olive oil
• 1/2 a lemon, juice
• 1 tbsp of white wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp minced fresh cardamom (or fresh basil or fresh mint)
• Salt, pepper

 PROCEDURE

Salad: In a large salad bowl combine lettuce,  Feta cheese cubes, olives, fresh onions, grated carrot, chopped tomatoes,  dill, and parsley. Add a little salt and pepper and gently stir with a wooden spoon.

Dressing: Add the olive oil, lemon juice, vinegar, salt and pepper in a medium-sized bowl.  With a fork or whisk beat these ingredients. Add chopped cardamom (or basil or mint). Stir,  pour over salad, toss to combine and serve.

Variation of this salad:

• add 1 yellow or red pepper,
• ½ a cucumber, chopped.
• instead of fresh onion – red onion
• handful corn etc.

For a more satisfying result, we can have potatoes on the table, boiled in salted water for 10 minutes and sprinkled with oil and mustard. This salad also accompanies grilled sausages, burgers or meatballs with parsley and mint.

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