Ways of cooking national Greek salad "Horiatika" quite a lot. In each area, as a rule, practiced its own special recipe. Depending on what ingredients are used in the recipe and technology of preparation, it acquires a peculiar shades of taste. A typical Mediterranean version of this salad involves the use of tomatoes, olives, herbs, spices and olive oil.
Rhodes is popular non-acute version of "Horiatric", which are added to the croutons. It is crisp crackers that add savory shades to this, in general, the most ordinary Greek salad, the cooking process of which cannot be called laborious.
The process of cooking Rhodian Greek salad with croutons with step-by-step photos, as well as detailed comments will help anyone who wants to decorate their table with a bright dish or diversify the daily menu with something exotic. However, all the exotic lies only in the unusual assembly and supply of salad. The principle of its preparation is the same as that of all salads, cocktails: the ingredients are folded into a wine glass, ice cream bowl, salad bowl or on a platter in layers. They are mixed immediately before ingestion. The products used to create Greek delicacies are completely ordinary. In any season, you can easily buy them at any supermarket or grocery store.
If you have time and desire, crackers can be prepared. To do this, stale bread is cut in small pieces and sent to the oven before light browning. Meanwhile, garlic suspension is being prepared. Garlic juice, salt or soy sauce is added to the heated vegetable oil. With this talker, the croutons are sprayed and dried in the oven, which has not yet cooled down, but not already turned on. In case of emergency, purchased ones will do.
This salad uses soft feta cheese. If the cheese turns out to be salty, you can pull it out of the brine for about fifteen minutes in milk.
Salt and onions are not used in the Rhodes cocktail salad.
In the photo: ingredients for the preparation of salad "Horiatika" with crackers:
- Rusks - 40 g
- Salad leaves - 3 pieces
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs
- Orange Bulgarian pepper - 1-2 pieces
- Dill - 0.5 bunch
- Parsley - a few feathers
- Spicy pitted olives - 9 pcs
- Red Sweet Paprika - Pinch
- Dried basil greens - a pinch
- Olive oil - 2 tbsp. l
The recipe of the Greek salad cocktail "Horiatika" with crackers (with photos)
Put three lettuce leaves on a flat dish so that they cover the whole of its central part.
We spread the slices of tomatoes according to the diameter of the dish in the form of a bagel, leaving the central part free.
In the center of the future salad pour a pile of croutons.
Crackers are covered with straws of Bulgarian pepper.
We crush the formed hill with finely chopped dill and irrigate it with olive oil.
At the very top of the vegetable hill, inside which are hidden crackers, put the slices of soft cheese.
Sprinkle cheese with dried basil and paprika.
We decorate the Rhodes cocktail salad with spicy olives and green parsley leaves.
With its appetizing kind of salad with crackers it makes you want to try it, and, having tried it, you will certainly make it more than once.
