Tag Archives: vegetarian salads
Grilled Vegetable Salad
Grilled vegetable salad is a very common salad in the Greek cuisine. It simply comes beautifully along with so many dishes or simple meze that you would rather notice when it’s missing than when it’s present. Actually, Greek restaurants rarely miss to offer this salad – at the home table it’s not that common since [...]
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Boiled Greens Salad
Eating boiled greens salad in Greece is a very common thing; it is actually one of the most common and popular summer salads that Greeks love eating, accompanying their fish and meat dishes, or seafood and cheeses. Boiled greens, “horta vrasta” as they are called in Greek , are simple, tasty and very easy to [...]
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Cabbage Apple Salad
Cabbage Apple Salad is one of the crispy summer salads equally loved by kids and adults. It’s easy to understand that – just an ordinary cabbage salad, seasoned with red wine vinegar, salt and olive oil, can go a long way. Welcomed at the table in all seasons, all over the world, in many varieties, [...]
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Pasta-Shrimp Salad with Feta
With the abundance of seafood in Greece, Pasta Shrimp salad with feta cheese is one of the favorite summer salads of the Greeks, served in Athens and most of the Greek Islands. Shrimps themselves, delicious and refreshing anytime, get particular fireworks of flavors in this salad. Just imagine the garlic and minced rosemary stirred in [...]
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Octopus Salad
Greeks love to eat octopus in all variations, but Octopus Salad is one of desserts of their summers. Octopus has been on Greek plates obviously for centuries and centuries: Cretan Minoans have even painted frescoes on the walls of Knossos Palace of a fisherman carrying an octopus. Octopus legs (or arms) are the most delicious [...]
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Garlic Hummus Salad
Hummus is a very popular meze-salad in Greece, especially garlic-rich hummus. First of all, Greeks love garlic but also, hummus with a pronounced garlicky taste is a great addition to many Greek dishes. Stews, lighter meats, Greek pilaf, roasted vegetables – all that and much more makes good friends with Garlic Hummus Salad. Hummus comes [...]
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Easy Cucumber Salad
Cucumbers are one of the very common ingredients in many Greek salads. Their juiciness and freshness are pleasant in any combination: with tomatoes, lettuce, potatoes, avocado, seafood… Not to mention that cucumbers are one of the major ingredients of the beloved Greek salad tzatziki. The easy cucumber salad is also very refreshing and suitable for [...]
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Rocket Beets Cucumber Raisin Salad
When making Greek salads, possibilities are unlimited – Rocket Beets Cucumber Raisin Salad confirms the rule. Rocket and beets go well together, as it was shown in other recipes, but adding something completely different to that combination – like cucumbers and raisins- makes the whole experience anew. Peppery taste of rocket, somewhat tart flavor of [...]
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Melitzanosalata – Greek Eggplant Salad
Melitzanosalata – the Greek salad made with eggplants. Sometimes is hard to make a dividing line between salads and dips or spreads in the Greek cuisine, and Melitzanosalata is definitely one of those salad – dip – spread combinations that can be used in all variations. In any case, melitzanosalata is a mezes (appetizer), one [...]
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Tzatziki – the famous Greek apetizer and dip
Tzatziki is a traditional world-famous Greek appetizer. Tzatziki is a simple but extremely savory and refreshing dip, a combination of strained (very Greek) yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, dill, olive oil, vinegar, and salt, is a cold salty desert of the Greek cuisine. Some people consider it a Greek salad as well, therefore, when in a Greek [...]
