Greek Salad    

Donna, a friend of my wife Nancy is getting married soon.  Donna's fiancé, Pontalis (pont-a-lee), is from Greece.  During a recent visit with Donna and Pontalis, Nancy was made a few traditional Greek meals.  Since then, she's been on a Greek food kick, having me make whatever I can Greek style.  So far, it's been fun.  Pontalis made her some Greek Steak and a Greek salad, but she didn't get the recipes.  And I couldn't find a Greek Steak recipe online anywhere, so I spoke to a Greek friend of mine and he gave me the basics and from there, this dish was born.  Click here for my Greek Steak recipe.

Ingredients

	1 to 1-1/2 heads/bunches romaine lettuce, washed, cut in half down center rib, then cut across in 1/2" wide strips
	1/2 small red onion sliced to 1/8" and left in rings or half rings
	1 medium cucumber, peeled, quartered lengthwise, seeded and cut in 1" lengths
	2 medium ripe vine tomatoes, cored, sliced into 8 wedges and seeded
	1 small green bell pepper, sliced into thin (1/8") rings and seeded

	8 ounces crumbled feta cheese
	20 pitted kalamata olives

	1 cup olive oil
	1 tablespoon minced garlic
	5 tablespoons lemon juice
	6 tablespoons dried oregano
	1/2 teaspoon course ground black pepper

Steps

• Combine dressing ingredients in glass jar, a small glass bowl or tall drinking glass and mix thoroughly
• Toss salad ingredients into large salad serving bowl
• When you are ready to serve, drizzle dressing over top of salad, lightly toss, then add cheese and olives to top of salad
  

As I continue to make and refine this salad, I will update this recipe.  If you have a real Greek Salad recipe, please send it to me.

Serves 6

Recipe by Jim Beletti - March, 2003

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Last revised: May 02, 2005 04:19 PM