Greek salad; 5 delicious traditional recipes

Greek salad - 5 very tasty traditional recipes

Greek salad is known all over the world; its unforgettable taste is incomparable to any other. In Greece it is called “choreatics”, which means “village”, and all because it consists of such goods that farmers have in abundance every day.

The most important ingredient in this dish is feta - a soft cheese made from sheep's milk, currently considered Greek. The cheese is rich in calcium and iron, which has a positive effect on the cardiovascular system. It is very popular in all Mediterranean countries and is an indispensable element.

Production features include coarsely chopped vegetables, feta cheese, olives and olive oil. That is why this dish is rich in various vitamins and microelements, not least a very tasty salad with crab sticks. Now it is an integral part of the festive table, it is loved and appreciated all over the world.

Greek salad - Traditional step-by-step recipe

The key to a successful salad is the freshest vegetables, high-quality pitted olives, and good olive oil. Due to its own unique taste properties, it has become very famous. It has a huge number of varieties and is prepared differently depending on the region. So, we start making!

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
• Cucumbers – 5 pcs (small size)
• Bell pepper – 2 pcs.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Feta – 250 gr
• Olives - to taste
• Olive oil – 5 tablespoons
• Lemon juice 1 tbsp. spoon
• Salt, pepper and oregano - to taste.

Manufacturing method:

1. First, prepare all the necessary ingredients.

2. Wash the vegetables, then start cutting them: cut the cucumbers into large pieces, cut the tomatoes in half and cut each half into approximately 5 pieces.

3. Peel the bell pepper from the seeds and cut into large pieces. For the most colorful dish, we took peppers of two colors: yellowish and reddish.

4. Chop the onion into half rings and mix the chopped vegetables in a plate.

5. Mix salt, pepper, lemon juice and olive oil.

6. Cut the cheese into cubes approximately 1-1.5 cm.

7. Place chopped cheese and olives on a plate with vegetables, season everything with olive oil and spices. Sprinkle dried or fresh oregano on top. Our hearty and at the same time light salad is ready. Bon appetit!

The usual recipe for Greek salad with feta cheese

Almost everyone asks the question: “Why specifically cheese cheese and not feta?” Feta and feta cheese are identical, but still differ in their own taste and mixture. Brynza is the densest, hardest cheese that does not crumble when cut. This cheese not only tastes good, but also has the least amount of calories. It has 1.5 times fewer calories than feta. That is why almost everyone tries to add it specifically to this dish.

Ingredients:

• Cheese cheese – 200 gr
• Tomatoes – 1 pc.
• Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
• Lettuce leaves – 3 pcs.
• Bell pepper - 1 piece
• Olives – 50 gr
• Olive oil – 45 ml
• Oregano, lemon juice, pepper and salt to taste.

Manufacturing method:

1. First we will prepare all the ingredients and wash the vegetables.

2. Cut the tomatoes into small squares, as in the photo.

3. We also chop the bell pepper, having previously cleared it of seeds.

4. Cucumbers can be cut in half, and then into small halves.

5. Cut the cheese into cubes, approximately 1-1.5 cm.

6. Chop the onion into half rings and the olives into rings.

7. Cut the leaves into small pieces.

8. Place the chopped vegetables in a deep bowl and season them with lemon juice. Then add olives, onions and feta cheese. Add oregano and salt and olive oil to taste, mix gently.

The dish with cheese is ready. Bon appetit!

Traditional recipe for Greek salad with fetax like in a restaurant

With fetax it really is like in a restaurant. Fetax cheese is similar to feta cheese, but has the densest consistency, and its lightly salted taste has a huge number of different colors. Unique and very easy to make.

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
• Cucumbers 2 pcs
• Fetax cheese – 200 gr
• Lettuce leaves – 3 pcs.
• Olives – 50 gr
• Olive oil – 4 tbsp
• Greens - to taste
• Salt - to taste.

Manufacturing:

1. Prepare the necessary ingredients. Wash the vegetables.

2. Cut tomatoes, cucumbers and cheese into small cubes.

3. Coarsely chop the lettuce leaves or tear them apart with your hands.

4. Mix cubes of cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers with leaves in a deep bowl.

5. Add olives and pour olive oil.

6. Add salt and herbs to taste.

7. Mix everything well.

Thanks to the riot of colors in this dish, it looks even more appetizing and will decorate any table.

Salad with chicken and tomatoes

There are a huge number of different recipes for making this delicious dish, and now we will prepare it with chicken and tomatoes. Thanks to chicken, it becomes even more satisfying and appetizing.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet – 300 g (pre-baked or boiled)
• Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
• Feta cheese – 150 gr
• Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Olives – 50 gr
• Garlic – 1 clove
• Lemon juice – 20 g
• Olive oil – 4 tbsp
• Salt - to taste.

Manufacturing method:

1. We tear the lettuce leaves into small pieces with our hands.

2. Cut the onions into half rings.

3. Chop the cucumbers into rings, then into quarters.

4. Cut the tomatoes into slices.

5. Mix the vegetables in a deep bowl, pour them with olive oil, lemon juice and a garlic clove passed through a press.

6. Cut the chicken breast prepared in advance into large pieces and place it on top of the vegetables.

7. Cut the cheese into cubes and add along with the olives.

8. Mix all ingredients.

9. Salt to taste.

10. Our hearty and very tasty snack is ready.

Greek salad with mozzarella

Mozzarella is a soft cheese from southern Italy, famous for its delicate soft mixture and pronounced flavor properties. Mozzarella perfectly complements a Greek salad.

Ingredients:

• Mozzarella – 150 gr
• Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
• Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
• Bell pepper – 1-2 pcs.
• Lettuce leaves - 2-3 pcs.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Pitted olives
• Lemon juice – 30 g
• Salt, herbs, spices - to taste.

Manufacturing:

1. Cut the mozzarella into thick slices.

2. Peel the tomatoes and cut into large slices.

3. Chop the cucumbers into small pieces.

4. Diced bell pepper mode.

5. Cut the onions into rings.

6. Tear the leaves with your hands or cut them into small pieces.

7. Mix vegetables and cheese in a deep bowl.

8. Pour our dish with olive oil mixed with lemon juice, herbs and spices.

9. Salt to taste.

Thanks to mozzarella, this dish takes on a new, extraordinary taste that you and your loved ones will enjoy. Bon appetit!

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1. Ingredients
2. Step-by-step production

The main highlight of the traditional Greek salad is that all the ingredients for this dish are chopped coarsely. During production, vegetables, cheese and olives in the salad are combined, but not mixed. This method is explained by the fact that the appetizer allows you to feel the taste of each ingredient, both as a whole and separately.

Due to the huge content of greens and vegetables, Greek salad is considered a dietary dish that can be a substitute for a real dinner. And in order to make the salad richer, but at the same time not load it with unnecessary calories, chicken meat is added to the dish.

Typically, in a Greek chicken salad recipe, the dressing is made from lemon juice, olive oil, and spices. Without losing the taste of the salad, balsamic vinegar is often used instead of lemon juice. For example, in Greece there is such a tradition - salad with the addition of balsamic vinegar is served only on festive occasions and only for noble guests.

• Chicken fillet – 600 g.
• Cucumbers – 3 pcs.
• Soft cheese (Brynza or Feta) – 80 g.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Tomatoes – 3 pcs.
• Olives – 10 pcs.
• Lemon juice – 2 tbsp. l.
• Garlic – 2 cloves
• Olive oil – 4 tbsp. l.
• Fresh herbs for decoration
• Ground dark pepper, salt to taste.

Step-by-step production

If necessary, chicken fillet is defrosted in advance, the meat is washed with cool water, and excess veins and skin are cut off. Cut the fillet into large proportional cubes.

A marinade is prepared for raw meat with the consistency of olive oil and freshly squeezed lemon juice, crushed garlic and spices. For piquancy, add mustard, reddish ground pepper or curry to the sauce.

Place the fillet pieces into a separate bowl, pour over the prepared dressing moderately and mix the chopped chicken meat with your hands a couple of times so that the marinade is better absorbed into it.

Cover the container with the fillet with plastic wrap and place the dish in the refrigerator for five to six hours. Turn the meat pieces over in the marinade a couple of times. There will be enough time for the fillet to mix with the smells of spices.

In a Greek salad with chicken, the meat will really turn out tasty and tender if you leave it to marinate in a cold place all night (that is, in the dark) . To do this, the finished pieces of fillet are washed with water, dried and fried in a frying pan or in a slow cooker until cooked. Transfer the meat to a plate and leave until completely cool.

The cheese is cut into medium-sized cubes. If to prepare a dish they use feta cheese - a cheese that in itself is salty, then the salad is not added at all. And in this case, if the cheese turns out to be very salty, it is soaked in milk or mineral water for 10 minutes. At the end of time, the cheese for the Greek salad with chicken, as in the photo, is cut into cubes and added to the salad.

Cucumbers and tomatoes are peeled from stems and stalks, the tomatoes are coarsely cut into slices, and the cucumbers into half rings.

Each olive is cut in half or chopped into rings.

The bottom of a deep or flat dish is decorated with lettuce leaves, and then alternately lay out chicken meat, vegetables and cheese, olives, sprinkle the salad with chopped herbs (parsley, dill) and season the dish with olive oil.

Alternatively, for a traditional Greek chicken salad, a sauce is made from ground egg yolks, chopped garlic, mustard, lemon juice and olive oil. Stir the mixture with a whisk until smooth and immediately season the salad.

For a crunchy, unusual taste, croutons are added to Greek salad. Thin slices of snow-white bread are cut into cubes, sprinkled with olive oil and fried in a pan or baked in the oven until golden brown. During production, so that the crackers are moderately fried or baked, they are turned over a couple of times with a wooden spatula.

Ready-made croutons will retain their own pleasant crunch if you add them to the salad before serving.

If desired, decorate the dish with chopped pine nuts. To update the taste of Greek salad, add avocado to it. One fruit is cut in half, pitted and peeled, the pulp is cut into large cubes and added to the salad. Avocado does not lose its own taste and is especially harmonious in all snacks with chicken and vegetables.

Greek Caesar salad with chicken goes perfectly with meat or fish dishes and can be complemented with a glass of snow-white wine.

Greek salad with chicken

Ingredients

Baked chicken breast fillet – 150 g

Cherry tomatoes – 10-12 pcs.

Medium strong cucumber – 1 pc.

Reddish sweet pepper – 1 pc.

Purple onion – 1 pc.

Olives – 10-12 pcs.

Lettuce leaves – 0.5 bunch

Olive oil – 2-3 tbsp.

Lemon juice – 1 tsp.

Dried basil - a pinch

Dark ground pepper - a pinch

• 79 kcal
• 15 minutes.
• 15 minutes.

Photo of the finished dish

Step-by-step recipe with photos

Prepare the necessary ingredients for the Greek chicken salad. Wash vegetables and lettuce leaves and dry with a cardboard towel.

Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.

Cut the pepper in half, remove the stalk, white partitions and seeds. Cut into large cubes.

Cut the onion into thin rings.

Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands and place on a flat dish or in a salad bowl.

In a bowl, combine olive oil, lemon juice, dried basil and ground dark pepper.

Cut the chicken fillet into thin slices and place on lettuce leaves. Add cherry tomatoes, cucumber, pepper and onion.

Cut the cheese into small cubes and add to the salad. Place olives on top. Pour dressing over salad.

Greek chicken salad is ready.

Serve immediately.

Bon appetit and a delicious feast for you!

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Greek salad with chicken - traditional regular recipe

What’s good about a snack with vegetables is that it’s light and low in calories. But by adding chicken fillet to a Greek salad, the calorie content increases and the dish becomes satisfying and complete. With all this, it will still be considered dietary, because chicken meat is not fatty and is perfectly absorbed by the body.

Greek salad with chicken - recipe

Adding honey to an already unique dish is a very original solution. An ordinary treat becomes even richer and less special. In this recipe, we recommend using cheese for Greek salad, the name of which is Feta.

You will need:

• 400 gr. chicken meat;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1 cucumber;
• 150 gr. olives (dark);
• 150 gr. Feta cheese;
• 1 onion;
• 200 gr. lettuce leaves;
• 1 tbsp. l. oregano;
• 5 tbsp. l. olive oils;
• 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
• 1 tsp. honey from acacia flowers.

Greek salad with chicken – recipe:

1. Wash the chicken meat, trim off the membranes and cut into pieces. Salt, grease with spices and fry in a frying pan with oil.
2. Wash the tomatoes and cut them.
3. Rinse the cucumbers, remove the stems and chop into slices.
4. Remove the skins from the onion and chop into rings.
5. Wash the salad to remove dirt and tear into pieces.
6. The cheese needs to be cut into small and careful cubes.
7. Carefully remove the olives from the jar.
8. Place all the already prepared ingredients into a salad bowl and mix.
9. In a separate, suitable container, mix olive oil with lemon juice, honey and oregano.
10. Pour the freshly prepared sauce into the salad and mix all the ingredients.

You may also be intrigued by other delicious salad recipes, for example, regular Olivier salad or chicken Caesar, which you can find on our website.

Greek salad with chicken recipe

This salad turns out to be simply unusual, because not the usual boiled fillet is added to the composition, but marinated and fried. An unusual combination of perfectly cooked meat with vegetables and a unique garlic sauce.

You will need:

• 300 gr. chicken fillet;
• 3 cucumbers;
• 100 gr. lettuce leaves;
• 1 onion;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 100 gr. olives;
• 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 4 tbsp. l. olive oils;
• 30 gr. greenery

Greek salad recipe with chicken:

1. Chicken meat should be washed in advance, the skin and veins should be cut off, and then cut.
2. Let's prepare a special marinade in which the fillet will simmer. For this purpose, mix the oil with lemon juice and previously peeled and crushed garlic.
3. Place the pieces in a suitable container and pour the sauce over them moderately, then stir vigorously so that the meat is thoroughly soaked.
4. Now the fillet should be covered with special cling film and placed in the refrigerator for at least 5 hours.
5. After this period of time, place the chicken pieces in a frying pan and fry in the least amount of olive oil.
6. Wash the cucumbers and chop into halves.
7. Tomatoes should be rinsed and cut into pieces.
8. Peel the onion and cut into rings.
9. Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them and tear them into several approximately similar pieces.
10. Remove the olives from the container.
11. Be sure to wash the greens and chop them with a knife.
12. Combine all the products in a salad bowl, mix, sprinkle with herbs, pour over oil.

Greek salad with chicken and croutons

This recipe is somewhat more difficult than the traditional one, because it requires special attention in the production of crackers, which under no circumstances should be store-bought. But if you consider the end result, the hassle with bread already seems like a small thing.

You will need:

• 200 gr. snow-white bread;
• 300 gr. chicken meat;
• 100 gr. hard cheese;
• 100 gr. lettuce leaves;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1/2 lemon;
• 50 gr. olive oils;
• 1/2 tsp. oregano.

Greek salad with chicken and croutons - recipe:

1. First you need to cook the chicken. For this purpose, wash the fillet, brush with spices and place on a baking sheet.
2. At this time, cut the bread into small and rather careful cubes and add to the meat.
3. Bake the bread and fillet, while twisting the crackers from time to time so that they do not burn and absorb all the juice that comes out of the meat.
4. Cool the finished chicken meat and cut into cubes.
5. Wash the lettuce leaves and tear them into pieces with your hands.
6. Wash the tomatoes and cut them.
7. Grate the cheese.
8. Combine all ingredients in a plate.
9. For the dressing, mix lemon juice, spices and oil, beat well and pour into the already prepared salad.
10. The appetizer should be stirred just before serving.

Greek salad prepared at home

The highlight of the recipe given to us is the addition of not only chicken meat, but also pine nuts. Due to such an unusual component, the salad itself turns out to be not so ordinary, it is the most rich and nutritious.

You will need:

• 2 tbsp. l. vinegar 9%;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 200 gr. chicken fillet;
• 70 gr. lettuce leaves;
• 200 gr. cheese;
• 60 gr. olive oils;
• 50 gr. pine nuts.

Greek salad - step-by-step recipe:

1. Wash the chicken fillet and boil it in water with salt and spices. Cool the finished meat and cut into pieces.
2. Grate the cheese.
3. Grind pine nuts in a mortar.
4. Rinse the lettuce leaves and tear them with your hands.
5. Wash the tomatoes and cut into pieces.
6. In a suitable container, beat the oil with vinegar.
7. Place all the ingredients in a salad bowl, pour over the dressing and stir.

Greek salad - traditional recipe with chicken

Here it is, the usual recipe, which, in addition to ordinary, ordinary goods, contains fillet marinated in a special sauce. Such variation in an incredible way makes the dish truly unique, inimitable and breathtakingly delicious.

You will need:

• 100 gr. lettuce leaves;
• 1 cucumber;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 300 gr. chicken meat;
• 1 lemon;
• 1 tsp. oregano;
• 1/2 tsp. salt;
• 10 peppercorns;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. l. wine vinegar;
• 6 tbsp. l. olive oils

Cooking steps:

1. Beat the juice of half a lemon with half the amount of olive oil indicated in the recipe, then add oregano, salt and pepper to this mixture.
2. Coat the chicken fillet generously with the consistency given to us, then cover with film and leave in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
3. Then fry the meat for almost four minutes on each side in a frying pan without adding oil.
4. Cut the finished and cooled fillet into pieces.
5. Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them, and tear them with your hands.
6. Rinse tomatoes and cucumbers and cut into pieces.
7. Peel the garlic, crush the cloves with a press and transfer to a container suitable for making sauce.
8. Add lemon juice, vinegar and remaining oil to the garlic. Whisk all ingredients. All that remains is to add spices and a little salt. Then beat it again.
9. Combine all products, pour over dressing and mix.

Thanks to chicken fillet, a salad with Greek yogurt can not whet your appetite, but completely satisfy your hunger. This dish is perfect for a light dinner, and on a formal table it will be one of the brightest and most memorable treats. The calorie content of Greek salad with butter allows you to eat a snack even for those who are on a diet (Diet is a set of rules for human consumption of food) .