Watch an expert chef prepare a Greek salad with feta cheese and Greek salad dressing in this free video recipe.
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Basic ingredients you need to make a Greek salad including lettuce, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, kalamata olives and feta cheese; find them all in this free online cooking video.
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Information on ingredients you need to make a simple Greek salad dressing including olive oil, lemons, salt and pepper in this free online cooking video.
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Summary: The classic Greek salad, sometimes called a “village salad”, in its traditional form consists of chopped tomato, cucumbers, bell pepper and red onion, and sometimes baby spinach, and seasoned with salt, pepper, oregano and olive oil. Some recipes also call for feta, capers and kalamata olives. In the United States and UK a Greek salad is a lettuce based salad with classic Greek ingredients like feta cheese, olives and tomatoes and topped with oil and vinegar. Some recipes also use cucumbers, bell peppers, onions, radishes, pepperoncini and sometimes beets.
In this series of free cooking videos you'll learn how to make a Greek salad. Expert Karen Weisman demonstrates the process step by step, showing you what ingredients you'll need, how to wash and dry the greens, and how to put together the ingredients. She also demonstrates how to make variations on Greek salad dressing, like an oregano dressing, sun-dried tomato dressing, and the classic Greek scald dressing.
Expert: Karen Weisman graduated from Boston University with a degree in Hotel and Food Management. Since then, she has helped a national grocery store chain develop and launch a gourmet food division. Karen has worked as a manager at a large catering company as well as owned & operated her own her restaurant. She currently lives in Israel with her husband and six children, where she teaches cooking, baking, cake decorating, and various crafts such as mosaics and sewing.