Feta and Tomato Salad
Fragrant, light, pretty, and mayonnaise-free! Feta and tomato salad is a simple but very tasty dish made from everyday ingredients with a fragrant dressing. It's a throw-together dish - quick and filling enough to feed the family, yet good enough for a holiday table!
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make feta and tomato salad? Prepare the ingredients. The tastiest salad comes from seasonal vegetables; in winter, cherry tomatoes are the better choice, since they're tastier. You can use any vegetable oil, as long as it tastes good. You'll need the juice of half a lemon, so wash it with hot water first - or use ready-made lemon juice.
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Step 2:
Make the salad dressing. How? Mix the olive oil with the lemon juice and add a little salt.
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Step 3:
Add the minced garlic. I grate it on the finest grater, but you can chop it with a knife or put it through a press. You can also use garlic powder instead of fresh garlic. Mix all the ingredients. The dressing is ready.
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Step 4:
Wash the tomatoes, dry them, and cut them into wedges. You can cut them however you like - wedges or cubes.
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Step 5:
Wash and dry the cucumbers and cut them however you prefer. Be sure to taste them - a bitter cucumber will ruin the whole dish.
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Step 6:
Cut the feta into cubes. When buying feta, check the label - it should be real cheese made from milk, not a brined product with a milk-fat substitute.
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Step 7:
Mix the cut vegetables with the feta.
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Step 8:
Salt the salad to taste. Don't over-salt - the feta is already quite salty.
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Step 9:
Drizzle the fragrant dressing over the salad, toss, and serve right away. A fresh-vegetable salad doesn't keep long - the vegetables release their juices and lose their look and flavor.
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Step 10:
Enjoy!
- This salad is light and fragrant. It can be served as a dish on its own, as an appetizer, or as a side - say, with a juicy steak or tender baked fish. It complements them beautifully! For extra freshness, add chopped fresh herbs: basil is ideal, but cilantro and dill work well too. Or try mint or thyme for a very interesting, original flavor!
- Choose tomatoes that are juicy but firm. Soft ones don't hold their shape well; while you cut and prep them, they collapse into a shapeless mush and spoil the look of the dish.
- The salad looks neat and pretty if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (cubes, for example).
- If the cucumber skin isn't tough, damaged, or bitter, there's no need to peel it.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Tomatoes - 23 kcal/100g
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Lemon - 16 kcal/100g
- Lemon zest - 47 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Feta cheese - 290 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
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