Jazz up your salad with a wonderful Greek salad. It's full of Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, Kalamata olives and Feta cheese. Serve it with a wonderful crusty bread, soup or your favorite sandwich. You can even serve it in a flour tortil
1 head Romaine lettuce, chopped
4 whole tomatoes, each cut Into 6 wedges, and each wedge cut In half
1 large, whole cucumber, peeled, cut Into fourths lengthwise, diced into large chunks
1/2 red onion, sliced very thinly
30 pitted Kalamata olives, cut in half lengthwise
6 oz. Feta cheese, crumbled
fresh parsley, roughly chopped, to taste
1/4 cup olive oil
2 T. red wine vinegar
1 t. sugar, or to taste
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
6 whole Kalamata olives, finely chopped
1/4 t. salt
freshly ground black pepper
freshly squeezed juice from 1 whole lemon
pepperocini peppers, if desired
Wash parsley and lettuce, drain and dry with paper towels; chop separately.
Wash tomatoes and cucumbers.
Add chopped lettuce, tomato wedges, cucumber chunks, onion slices, halved Kalamata olives, one half of the Feta cheese, and parsley to a large bowl.
Combine olive oil, vinegar, sugar, garlic, salt, pepper, and the chopped olives in a bowl. Whisk together until well combined. Taste; adjust seasonings. Usually a little more sugar is needed.
Pour dressing over salad ingredients, then season with salt and pepper. Toss.
Just before serving, top with additional Feta cheese and squeeze a little lemon juice, to taste over the top. Serve each individual portion with a pepperocini pepper, if desired.
8 servings.
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