Feta is a traditional Greek cheese, which has been produced for many centuries from sheep's and goat's milk.
It is aged for at least three months in saltbrine, because of what it gets a characteristic salty taste and a pleasant smell. The fat content of cheese ranges from 30% to 60%, so it can not be attributed to dietary varieties. However, many feta do not eat, it is too salty, but it is ideal for salads. Salad with feta cheese is a visiting card of Greek cuisine. It can be ordered at almost any cafe in the world. But this is not the only recipe in which feta ideally emphasizes the rest of the ingredients. There are many such dishes, and with some of them I want to introduce you. But let's start with the traditional Greek salad - where without it! For him we will need:
- 300 g of feta cheese;
- 3 cucumbers;
- 3 medium tomatoes or 9 cherry tomatoes;
- 1 Bulgarian pepper;
- half a sweet onion;
- a jar of olives or olives;
- olive oil;
- fresh basil;
- sea salt.
Cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers and choppedin small pieces. Onions are cleaned and cut into half rings. Feta cut into cubes. We spread vegetables and cheese in a deep plate. Finely chop the fresh basil and add it to the salad. Olives or olives put on your taste: love - more, do not be their fan - smaller. Add a little olive oil and sea salt to the salad. How to mix it and serve it to the table. Such a salad with feta cheese will be an ideal complement to meat or fish, and can also be an independent dish, like a light supper or a daytime snack. In any case, this useful, tasty and very simple in cooking dish will be able to even begin the hostess.
Warm salad with feta cheese
Sometimes you want to have a quick snack, but that whenThis food was both useful, and tasty, and warm, and nourishing, and easy. The task is not simple, especially when you need to quickly prepare such a snack. But there is a solution! Warm salad with feta cheese will become for you in this case a real wand-help. For its preparation we will need:
- a can of canned beans;
- canned tuna bank;
- 200 g of feta cheese;
- 2 tomatoes;
- clove of garlic;
- a bunch of greenery (dill, parsley);
- vegetable oil;
- salt pepper.
Heat the frying pan and pour a littlevegetable oil. Finely chop the garlic and lightly fry it. Add the beans from the jar to the garlic with the liquid in which it was. Cover and let it simmer over low heat. In the meantime, scald the tomatoes with boiling water and peel them off, finely chop and add to the beans. Again, cover the frying pan with a lid and simmer the vegetables until the tomatoes are completely soft and turn into a tomato paste. At the same time, they must be constantly stirred and crushed periodically, so that they soften faster. When the beans are ready, put it in a deep bowl. While it has not cooled down, add the remaining ingredients: chopped tuna, finely chopped greens and feta cubes. Mix everything thoroughly, add a little olive oil and salt with pepper to taste. From the heat of the bean, the cheese should melt slightly, which will give it even more softness. Also remember that all salads with feta cheese should not be salted abundantly, because cheese already contains enough salt. And if you want to make it more fresh, then, before preparing the dish, keep the cheese for about half an hour in mineral water or milk. For the first time you cook similar Greek cuisine, you will certainly want to try other recipes of salads with feta cheese. And you can invent them yourself or just add some of this cheese to your favorite salad. Bon Appetit!
