This Greek salad recipe is so easy to follow. Children love to chop and prepare salad vegetables, turning them into a beautiful, colourful dish.
Delicious served with warm wholemeal pitta bread and houmous.
Skills Check
Follow a recipe; follow food safety & hygiene rules; tidy away; use measuring spoons and cups; cut using bridge/claw knife technique safely; snip herbs with scissors; whisk.
Equipment
Chopping board, knife, scissors, large bowl, small bowl, juicer, measuring jug, weighing scales, fork/whisk, measuring spoons, large spoon.
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Ingredients (serves 4):
- 2 large tomatoes, quartered
- 1/2 cucumber, sliced
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 100g feta cheese, cubed or crumbled
- 50g black olives, de-stoned
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp mint leaves
Method
- Place the prepared tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, feta and olives into a bowl.
- In a jug mix together the olive oil and lemon juice.
- Put the mint leaves in a small bowl and snip into smaller pieces using the scissors.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and gently stir through the salad being careful not to break up the feta cheese.
- Scatter the mint leaves on top.
So thinking about Greek Salad ...
Vegetables are so good for us! Low in fat, sugar and salt and high in vitamins and minerals.
Feta cheese is a source of protein and calcium. Although lower in fat than some cheeses it should be used sparingly due to its very high salt content.
Salad dressing can be high in fat because oil is usually the main ingredient. Using unsaturated oil, such as olive or rapeseed oil, is a healthier choice but still only use small amounts.
Nutritional Information
Energy | 751kJ/181kcal | 9% | |
Med | Fat | 15.0g | 21% |
Med | Saturates | 4.6g | 23% |
Low | Sugars | 4.6g | 5% |
Med | Salt | 1.3g | 22% |
per 212g serving
% of an adult's reference intake
Typical values per 100g: Energy 354kJ / 85kcal
Notes
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Just because a recipe or a food has a red traffic light doesn’t mean you shouldn’t eat it. Understanding why a food or recipe might have a red light can be helpful. For example oily fish is high in total fat and so any recipe containing oily fish is likely to be ‘red’ for fat. But it is recommended that we eat oily fish at least once a week because the type of fat it contains is beneficial for our health.
% Reference Intakes are also shown. Reference Intakes are guidelines about the approximate amount of particular nutrients and energy required for a healthy diet (based on an average-sized woman doing an average amount of physical activity). Most children will require less than these Reference Intakes. The contribution of one serving of a food or drink to the Reference Intake for each nutrient is expressed as a percentage.