Greek Diced Vegetable Salad

Submitted by MsBindy

"Serve with a crusty bread....or stuff a pita with it. This recipe is posted for Zaar World Tour, and is from Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home"

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 2

ingredients

• 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and sliced
• 1 large ripe tomatoes, diced
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 1 scallion, finely sliced
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1⁄2 lemon, juice of
• 1 garlic clove, pressed
• 1⁄4 teaspoon dried oregano, crumbled
• 8 kalamata olives, pitted and sliced
• salt and pepper
• romaine lettuce leaf
• feta cheese, crumbled (optional)

directions

1. Combine cucumbers, tomtoes, bell peppers, scallions, parsley, oil, lemon juice, garlic, oregano and olives in a large bowl.
2. Add salt and pepper and toss well.
3. You can serve immediately, but it will taste better if it sits for about 30 minutes before serving.
4. Mound the salad on romaine lettuce leaves, and top with feta.

Reviews

[helowy]

I've been making this salad for some time and it always gets rave reviews. I usually stuff a pita with this salad and some hummus together. Mmmmmm.

 

[Susie D]

I have made this several times now and am just getting around to posting a review. I find myself using this often with the produce from a summer garden. I have subbed whole black olives if that was what I had on hand. Terrific recipe Bunny!

 

[Marie]

Very tasty salad. I know oregano is a key ingredient to Greek salads, but I don't care for it, so I left it out and added basil instead. A definite keeper of a recipe. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[Sharon123]

A lovely light salad which I enjoyed tonight. It went together quickly and tasted great! Thanks!

 

[bluemoon downunder]

A deliciously refreshing summer salad. Just loved the lemony flavour. I didn't peel my cucumber as the Lebanese cucumbers I always buy don't need peeling (or seeding). I doubled the number of kalamata olives and left them whole, and I added feta just before serving. A fabulous side dish to grilled or BBQd meats or a flavoursome stand alone salad (which is how I enjoyed mine) with crusty bread. Thank you, Bunny Mom, for sharing another wonderful recipe.