Summer recipe for eye health

This Greek salad serves 2 as a main, 4 as a side (double quantities to serve 4 as a main). If you know someone else who’d enjoy it, please pass it on using the buttons below!

summer Greek salad in a bowl being drizzled with olive oil

Ingredients:

  • 8 medium-sized vine tomatoes
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 green pepper 
  • 1/2 a red onion 
  • 16 Kalamata olives 
  • 100g feta cheese
  • 1 tsp dried oregano  
  • 1 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

Method:

  1. Slice the red onion and put in your serving bowl with the red wine vinegar whilst you prepare the other ingredients.
  2. Quarter the tomatoes; peel, halve and deseed the cucumber and cut into half-inch slices; deseed and then cut the pepper into bite-size chunks.
  3. Add the tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, olives and oregano to the onions and toss together.
  4. Add the olive oil, mix again, crumble the feta over the top and season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
  5. Serve with ciabatta or crusty bread.

Serves 2 as a main.

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