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Green Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

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What could be more delicious to eat on a hot summer day?  Salad of course! I love all sorts of salads with different Oil bases and or any home made dressing.  This is a very simple, green, light, and healthy salad based in Olive Oil and Lemon.  

Coming from a Greek background, I don’t remember my mother ever not using Olive Oil, and so the tradition continued with me.   I use Olive Oil in all my salads and in my recipes, because I love the taste, texture, and the fact is the benefits of eating Olive Oil are just countless.  🙂

GREEN SALAD WITH LEMON VINAIGRETTE

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 Lettuce
  • 1 cup Spinach Leaves
  • 3 Fresh Spring Onion chopped
  • 1/2 cup Dill chopped
  • 1/2 Cucumber sliced
  • Capers optional
  • Croutons optional
  • Feta optional
  • Lemon Vinaigrette:
  • 5 tablespoons Olive Oil
  • 1/2 Lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon Lemon zest grated
  • 1 teaspoon Sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon mustard
  • Salt
  • Pepper

Instructions
 

  • Wash all your greens and let drain. In the mean time in a small bowl add all the ingredients for the Vinaigrette and whisk. Once the greens have completely drained add into a bowl along with the Capers, Croutons, Feta if you wish, (others enjoy adding Feta into this salad and others don’t, it really is up to what you enjoy eating with your green salad), slowly drizzle the Lemon Vinaigrette and toss.

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

2 Comments

  1. Megala
    June 21, 2017 at 1:46 pm  ·  Reply
    Lovely flavorful salad!

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