As Close As I'll Ever Get to Greece Salad

Cookgirl's Note:

From our local newspaper. Extremely important to use the freshest ingredients for this salad! Recipe amounts were not given so they have been estimated. A note about olive brine: I use the liquid that the olives are soaked in either the package or the fresh ones from the "olive bar" at the natural food store. However I have tried a dirty martini olive juice from this source: www.garliclady.com based in Vancouver, Washington.

• Total Time: 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

Vinaigrette

• 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
• 1 tablespoon kalamata olive brine (known in these parts as "dirty olive juice")
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

Salad

• 2 firm roma tomatoes, cut into chunks
• 1/2 English cucumber, peeled in a strip fashion and cut into chunks
• 1 small green bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, cut into chunks
• 1/4 cup red onion, sliced
• 2 slices feta cheese, half inch slices (NOT "crumbled")
• 6 -8 kalamata olives
• fresh oregano sprig, for garnish (NOT dried)

Directions:

1. Whisk together the vinaigrette ingredients and set aside.
2. Place tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion and bell pepper on two salad plates.
3. Top with the feta slices, kalamata olives and sprigs of fresh oregano.
4. Drizzle the vinaigrette on the salad.

Reviews

[Nikoma]

Just wanted to say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE this dressing. I made a much bigger Greek inspired pasta salad (that included all the other ingredients here) and was looking for a light dressing. This is perfect. I tripled it and it worked fabulously.

[JanuaryBride]

Awesome, simple, pretty, healthy, PERFECT! Thanks so much for posting. . .to remind me to make Greek salads more often. Hubby added some extra vinegar to his and topped it off with cracked black pepper. I topped mine off with a sprinkle of Greek Seasoning. Made for ZWT6, Team SSaSSy.

[Sage]

It is very siialar to the one I make; fantastic!!!! Love the idea of adding olive brine to the dressing. Thank you for posting this one. I made for WT6. Rita