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Greek salad

Greek salad recipe with feta, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes and rusks.

Greek salad with feta, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes and rusks.
Greek salad with feta, olives, cucumbers, and rusks.

This Summer, while exploring the Cyclades islands, I fell in love with a Greek salad: the Cretan salad. It is a no lettuce Greek salad, with a rusk base: your meal ends with a slightly crunchy, full of flavors, delicious and juice rusk. A concentration of all the flavors you’ve been tasting so far.

This traditional Geek salad’s dressing is very simple: oregano, olive oil, salt, and pepper.

A delicious and easy Greek salad, as they make it in Greece.

 

Did you know there is a Greek salad made in Italy? Find out more on the Lecce issue!

 

The authentic Cretan salad with feta cheese and fresh veggies, served over a crunchy rusk. Get this and more Mediterranean recipes on Gourmet Project.
The authentic Cretan salad with feta cheese and fresh veggies, served over a crunchy rusk. Get this and more Mediterranean recipes on Gourmet Project.

 

Personal note: I first had this Greek salad in Greece, from a street food van on the surf beach of Tinos island: Kolimbithra. The beach pet was a donkey. Yes a donkey!

Let’s see how to make this Greek salad’s original recipe…

an authentic Greek salad recipe: the Cretan salad. Get the recipe on Gourmet Project
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Greek salad recipe

Course main
Cuisine greek
Servings 2
Author Claudia Rinaldi | Gourmet Project

Ingredients

  • 2 rusks I used Apulian/Italian friselle
  • ½ shallot
  • ½ cucumber
  • ½ green or yellow pepper
  • 10-15 cherry tomatoes or 1 medium tomato
  • 1 big handful black olives I used taggiascheitalian olives
  • 10 capers
  • 1 handful fresh or dried oregano leaves
  • 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • black pepper
  • 1,7 oz feta 50 gr - 2 medium slices

Instructions

  1. Clean, peel and dice (or slice) all the veggies.
  2. Whisk together olive oil, oregano leaves, a few slices of the onion, a few olives, salt and pepper.
  3. Assembly the salad. Place the rusk on the plate and gradually cover it: cucumber, pepper, shallot, tomatoes, feta (crumble it with your fingers), olives, capers… or whatever.
  4. Season with the olive oil mixture and serve.
  5. If you wait 10-15 minutes the rusk will be tender. If you don’t want to wait, lightly wet it in water before placing in on the bottom of your salad.
  6. Done. Enjoy.

enjoy your healthy Greek salad recipe!

Claudia