Greek Salad is a healthy salad. This is what you will be reading and listening everywhere today, since increasingly big amounts of experts and researchers embrace the Mediterranean diet as a healthy nutritional lifestyle.
Traditionally, Greeks eat foods that are in season and follow a somewhat relaxed and unhurried approach to mealtimes. Greeks are, though, very [...]
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Beans and peas are common “second hand” or side ingredients in many Greek salad recipes and dishes but combined together in this Broad Beans and Peas Salad they offer a savory and filing meal. If served cold and with no meat addition, this is definitely one of the lighter Greek salads you can have; its [...]
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You can find many fava recipes in the Greek cuisine, but Fava Salad comes in its best when made of fava lentils from Santorini, which are smaller, softer and particular. Fava is one of the common ingredients in the Greek cuisine, and more than any other sort, Greeks like Santorini fava beans. Santorini Fava Salad [...]
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Some people like to eat their vegetables raw and mixed together ; the Raw Cauliflower Salad is one of those Greek salads that you can always make at home in a few minutes with our easy recipe and have a very nutritious, nice meal. The raw cauliflower salad recipe is simple and contains healthy ingredients [...]
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When hyngry, or thinking what to cook for ourselves or a meal with friends, we all opt or crave for something tasty and refreshing on our table. Orange and Lettuce Salad is definitely one of the salads that you can serve with any kind of main dish and be sure that your family or guests [...]
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Mixed Salad with Apple is the traditional Greek salad with a few new ingredients. Greeks love their traditional cuisine as much as that’s possible but they also like to experiment. The secret of this Greek salad is in the dressing. Of course, the base for everything is olive oil but in this salad it [...]
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Cretan salad with rusk is one of the common Greek salads you can find in taverns and restaurants almost anywhere in Crete. And it is a truly delicious Greek salad to order when eating out. It’s a fresh, savory, crispy salad that easy goes with all kind of dishes, especially meat-based ones.
This salad is practically [...]
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Mixed Greens with Feta and prosciutto salad is a salad that “became” Greek, given the fact that Greeks adore greens and prosciutto. It can be eaten as the whole meal if days are extremely hot. It’s tasty, nutritious, and very filling. What is great about this salad is the different texture of its ingredients. [...]
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Spinach Orange salad is one of the favorite salads recently all over the world. With the whole hype about healthy food, salad dieting and raw vegetables, spinach became one of the fanciest salad ingredients. We are talking about raw and young spinach, of course, the same one that Greeks use in their famous spanakopita. When [...]
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Cucumber Lettuce Feta salad is one of the best examples what does simplicity mean for the Greeks. Simple but tasty, is always the winning formula in Greek cuisine. Well, not everything is that simple, but Greeks really don’t try to complicate their salads. They rather add some of their aromatic dry herbs, or feta, and [...]
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If trying to find a fresh, healthy salad that can accompany any meal, that’s Tomato Lettuce Salad , a tasty and simple Greek salad that can make a positive difference in any meal. A little addition of shredded carrots to the regular salad ingredients makes this salad really crispy and tasty. Not to mention its [...]
