Recipe: Delicious taisen's almost greek salad

taisen's almost greek salad. Greek salads in Greece are drastically different from what you get in most Greek restaurants in America. Below is the recipe for my version of Greek salad which stays pretty close to the traditional, but changes green peppers to red and adds a spring mix lettuce. Finally, I have my Greek tomatoes ready for harvest!

This Horiatiki Salad is an authentic Greek recipe that you would find in any Taverna in Greece. Directly translated Horiatiki means village, hence Greek Village Salad. "Horiatiki Salata" is served at almost every meal and every Taverna in Greece has it one on their menu. Easy Greek Salad with cucumbers, grape tomatoes, feta cheese and kalamata olives with a lemony red wine vinaigrette dressing in just five minutes. You can cook taisen's almost greek salad using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of taisen's almost greek salad

1. Prepare 1 of lettuce and or romaine lettuce.
2. You need 1 small of to medium red onion.
3. Prepare 1 can of of pitted black olives or you can use greek pitted olives.
4. You need 1 of sunflower seeds.
5. Prepare 1 of feta cheese crumbled.
6. You need 1 of tomato if you desire. I didn't have any so I skipped that.
7. Prepare 1 of anything else you wish to add in.
8. It's 1 of any brand of greek dressing.

I love cooking for family and friends and sharing easy, flavorful recipes. Greek salads come in all forms all over the world, some that would hardly be recognized as such by a native Greek. And Greek salad itself has changed as a result of its journey farther from home. In the United States, you often find lettuce on the plate among the tomatoes and cucumbers, the feta cheese.

taisen's almost greek salad step by step

1. rinse lettuce and or romaine.
2. chop lettuce and romaine up into bite size or larger if you like.
3. add them to a big salad bowl.
4. peel , rinse and chop onion however you like. add into the bowl.
5. open the olives. drain juice. you can either leave them whole or slice in half. add into the bowl.
6. take sunflower seeds and sprinkle how much you want into the bowl.
7. put the crumbled feta cheese in the bowl..
8. you can add anything else you like to the bowl.
9. mix if you like or leave as is. you can also cover this and put in the fridge for later or serve now..
10. serve this in separate bowls and pour some dressing in. mux and eat. enjoy with any meal.

Greek salad or horiatiki salad (Greek: χωριάτικη σαλάτα or θερινή σαλάτα) is a popular salad in Greek cuisine generally made with pieces of tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, feta cheese (usually served as a slice on top of the other ingredients), and olives (typically Kalamata olives) and dressed with salt. Greek salad is a dish favoured by many. But how many actually get it right? I'll show you how easy it is to create this classic Greek dish. I thought it would only be fitting to start off this working relationship with a classic dish.