Traditional Greek brine feta cheese is made from a mixture of sheep and goat's milk. Cheeses of this type are made in many countries (in South-Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Turkey, Israel and other countries.). Often, such cheeses are made from cow's milk, and / or from a mixture of cow and goat and sheep (in any combination).
With feta cheese (or with the usual cheese ) you can prepare tasty and useful salads. The most harmoniously brine cheeses are combined with fresh vegetables.
Greek salad with feta cheese, olives and tomatoes
Ingredients:
- cheese feta (or brynza) - about 300 g;
- fresh tomatoes - about 200 g;
- fresh cucumber - 1-3 pcs. (depends on the size);
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs. (for example, red and yellow);
- onions (preferably red) - 1 pc. (or a leek - 1 stem);
- olives young or dark (with or without bones) - 15-20 pieces;
- garlic - 1-2 cloves;
- olive oil Extra Virgin (better than Greek, for full authenticity);
- vinegar grape light natural or balsamic;
- hot red pepper;
- fragrant fresh herbs (parsley, basil, oregano (in Russian, oregano), just without the dill, we will just get by).
Preparation
The main principle of preparation of Greek salad is a fairly large cut, we will proceed from this. We cut the cheese into small cubes or cubes, as well as cucumbers. Sweet pepper cut into strips, tomatoes - slices, onion - half rings. If the olives with bones - we put them whole, if without - you can cut each half along. We do not chop the greens very finely. We connect all the ingredients in a salad bowl (or nicely laid out on plates). You can put on the leaves of a green salad of any kind.
Now we are preparing the gas station. Mix olive oil with vinegar in an approximate ratio of 3: 1. Garlic and red pepper crush in a mortar with a small amount of salt and pour a mixture of oil and vinegar. We pour the salad dressing. Alternatively, you can prepare a dressing from classic unsweetened yogurt mixed with crushed garlic and red pepper.
Some nutritionists are of the opinion that it is better not to combine cucumbers and tomatoes in one salad, if this is true for you, use only one of these ingredients.
Vegetable Greek salad is served well with meat or fish dishes, as well as seafood dishes, which are so characteristic of Greek cuisine. It will also be nice to serve barley bread or flat cakes and table wine (of course, Greek is better, however, other dining rooms will suit, for example, wines from the Balkan countries).
To make the Greek salad more nutritious, you can include in the ingredients of the boiled chicken meat (preferably from the breast), so gram 300.
Salad with feta cheese and shrimps
Ingredients:
- cheese feta (or brynza) - about 300 g;
- shrimps, cooked and peeled - about 150-200 g, better than medium size;
- tomatoes - about 150 g;
- red sweet pepper - 2 pcs .;
- olives - 15-20 pieces;
- onion red or white - 1 pc .;
- leaves of chicory and / or endive;
- olive oil;
- lemon juice;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- red hot pepper;
- mustard;
- greens are different (parsley, basil, coriander, rosemary, oregano).
Preparation
We lay out on the serving dish the leaves of chicory (and / or) endivia. From above we will spread the salad in a large cut, which we perform approximately the same as in the previous recipe (see above). When the salad with Feta cheese is laid out beautifully, we will decorate it with greens and polish dressing, prepared from olive oil with lemon juice, garlic, hot red pepper, salt and a small amount of mustard .