Simply Greek Salad

I’ve always loved a good salad – the fresh flavors and endless delicious toppings that you can incorporate in a variety of ways. To me there seems to be no bounds to what you can create. 

Lately, I’ve really had cravings for Greek flavors. You know, those little pepperoncini peppers, salty chunks of feta cheese, and that briny olive flavor. There’s nothing like it! So I dove in and started creating my ideal Greek salad recipe.

A Greek salad is traditionally made with large slices of onion, tomato, feta, cucumbers, and green peppers and topped with olive oil, salt, pepper, and a sprinkle of oregano. In the US we’ve adapted the Greek salad, especially in the south, by putting a scoop of potato salad on top, which makes the salad very delicious. I wanted to come up with something flavorful and healthy like the traditional salad but made in an American kitchen. My husband loves a good Greek salad too so together we decided to make our Greek salad a little leaner but still with the same flavors of feta cheese and kalamata olives.

We started out by freshly washing crisp romaine lettuce and chopping it into bite size pieces. I know that a traditional Greek salad doesn’t use lettuce but a little extra fiber never hurt anyone, right? We first layered the serving dish with the lettuce, and then began to assemble the toppings of chopped hard boiled eggs, chopped tomatoes, feta cheese, kalamata olives, red onion, pepperoncini, and cucumbers.

The hard boiled eggs were our nod to southern American flavors. We could have topped the salad off with a dressing of choice, however, we created a delicious lemon oregano dressing that’s hard to beat! We’ve included the dressing recipe with the salad recipe below. The ingredients and flavor in the dressing makes this salad healthy but still yummy and indulgent! 

This Greek salad is very simple and easy to put together, and takes no time at all. I’m very sure that you will enjoy it just as much as we do! 

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