The Olive and the Caper: Adventures in Greek Cooking
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Recipe Reviews
friederike from Berlin,
Very nice salad, contains all the ingredients you'd expect from a Greek salad. Served with Patates Lemonata, plain fried fish and Bread Skordalia, a very nice combination.
Edited 14 June 2014:
We served this as a complete meal for dinner, for just the two of us, and it was very nice. There was a little too much olive oil for my taste, next time I'll probably start with 1/4 cup, but otherwise it was very nice.
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Peckish Sister from Central, FL
This made a decent salad. My favorite village salad in Cyprus had a blob of potato salad. I made mine with yellow pepper, really ripe tomatoes, and California olives. I loved the addition of capers. I did reduce the oil and chose the lemon juice option. I am not used to cucumbers in Greek salads, but I really liked it.
Zosia from Toronto, ON
If one needs a recipe for Greek salad then this is the one to follow: the proportion of each ingredient to the other is just right creating a wonderful balance between fresh, crisp vegetables, briny olives and capers and salty cheese.
I made the Greek-American rendition that includes lettuce (romaine is what’s commonly used here) and scallions and added the optional red wine vinegar and honey to the dressing.
Definitely the best one I’ve made at home and among the best I’ve ever eaten.
southerncooker from Boomer, NC
I agree with QS this is an excellent salad. I used two baby bells, one yellow and one orange, instead of the green bell. I found some fairly tasty tomatoes, especially for this time year, that were still on the vine. I used red wine vinegar instead of lemon juice since the option was given. We loved the flavor the feta and kalamata olives gave to the salad. I made son one without the bell peppers since he doesn't care for them. Both son and hubby want me to make this one again and do the Americanized version with lettuces.
Queezle_Sister from Salt Lake City, UT
A most excellent Greek salad!
This salad includes a green pepper, cucumber, tomatoes, olives, red onion, feta, and some optional ingredients - capers, etc. Although I do not care for green peppers, in this particular salad they were perfect. As this is not the season for tomato excellence, I used fewer than called for in the recipe. My family all loved it and said they would eat it every day if they could.
The instructions suggest addition of a much larger amount of olive oil than I would usually use (1/3C), but I stuck to the recipe. A good tossing in a large bowl meant that everything was well covered, but it didn't seem oily at all. After the oil, one adds some lemon juice and oregano.
This is a strong recommend, and its also the time to break out that really excellent olive oil that you might reserve for special occasions.
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