Greek Salad

Greek Salad - it is so beautiful and so yummy.

Ingredients...romaine lettuce, cucumber, red pepper, tomatoes, mint, kalamata olives, parsley, and feta.  Also, this salad should really have red onions in it, but I forgot them and didn't feel like going back to the store.  So you'll have to just imagine the red onion.

Plus, the ingredients for the dressing:

Before you start with the dressing, you should put a red pepper in a 450 degree oven and cook it for about an hour, flipping every 20 minutes or so.  Now, on to the dressing. 

You'll need oregano, garlic, lemon, olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt, and pepper.

First, you chop the oregano finely. You'll need 2 teaspoons.

And mince the garlic - about one clove. 

Fresh squeezed lemon juice - 1 1/2 teaspoons.

Plus 6 tablespoons of olive oil, 3 tablespoons of vinegar, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.  Plus a splash of black pepper.

Then whisk it all together.

 Add cucumber.  You should peel the cucumber and remove the seeds, then slice it into 1/4 inch pieces.

Add the cucumber to the dressing.  Here, you would also add thinly sliced red onion if you have that.
Let that stuff sit while you prepare everything else.



Chop up the olives.

This is what your roasted red pepper should look like  You could take the easy way and by the jarred roasted red pepper from the store, but it isn't too hard to roast your own.  Plus it smells and tastes delicious!

Remove the red pepper's charred skin and slice the pepper into thin slivers.

Wash the romaine, mint, and parsley.  Tear into bite size pieces.  The mint is really amazing in this salad.  You'll want a decent amount of small mint pieces so there is a bit of mint in almost every bite. Its so good!

Then combine all the ingredients and serve!