Greek salad

Name: Greek salad
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 3 ripe tomatoes; 1/2 cucumber; 1/2 red onion; 1/2 green bell pepper; 7 oz. feta cheese; 10 black greek olives; 1/4 cup olive oil; 1/2 tbsp red wine vinegar; salt and pepper; 2 tsp dried oregano

Go Greek, Swedish-style, with this classic salad. Naturally low carb. Naturally delicious. This authentic recipe comes from Team Diet Doctor's cinematographer and video editor, Giorgos Chloros, who grew up in Greece but now resides in Stockholm.

July 24 2017 recipe by , photo by in Recipes, Appetizer, Meal

Greek salad

USMetric

2 servingservings

Ingredients

3 (12 oz.) 3 (350 g) ripe tomatoripe tomatoes
½ (5¹⁄₃ oz.) ½ (150 g) cucumber
½ (2 oz.) ½ (55 g) red onionred onions
½ (2½ oz.) ½ (70 g) green bell peppergreen bell peppers
7 oz. 200 g feta cheese
10 10 black greek olives
¼ cup 60 ml olive oil
½ tbsp ½ tbsp red wine vinegar
salt and pepper
2 tsp 2 tsp dried oregano

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Instructions

Instructions are for 2 servings. Please modify as needed.

Cut the tomatoes and cucumber into bite-sized pieces. Thinly slice the bell pepper and the onion. Arrange on a serving platter or, if possible, plate the salad on individual salad plates.
Add feta cheese and olives, and drizzle olive oil and vinegar over the salad.
Season with salt and pepper according to taste. Sprinkle with crumbled oregano and serve.

Tip!

Want a different look? Try cherry tomatoes as we did. Or swap the colors... yellow tomatoes with orange or red bell peppers is pretty. Or crumble the feta. Different presentations, but the same deliciousness.

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15 comments

1
Gail
May 7 2018
You've changed your website! Can't find some of the recipes I loved in December! Are you going to emails three meal recommendations each day :( That really helped me!!!!
2
Vanessa
September 2 2018
I know it says not to count calories....But, where are all the calories coming from in this salad per serving?

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Brindusa
November 22 2018
@ Vanessa ..indeed it looks very dodgy for a salad to have almost 600cal

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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
November 23 2018
The calories are from the fats. Keto is low carb, high fat which means the recipes tend to have more calories (but we tend to eat smaller servings as the food is richer and more filling). Salads without the good fats are just carb bombs.
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Raven
March 13 2019
Wow, even my 4 & 6yo boys downed it! They didn’t even complain about the onions! Though I only used 3/4 onion (6 servings), but it was a pretty large onion.
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Raven
March 13 2019
Wow, even my 4 & 6yo boys downed it! They didn’t even complain about the onions! Though I only used 3/4 onion (6 servings), but it was a pretty large onion. Even better the next day!
7
Venencia
March 27 2019
I had this for dinner and really enjoyed it. Crunchy and taste. That oregano uum nice. Thank you for sharing the recipe
8
Jojo
April 29 2019
I love Greek salad but how can I make this Keto? Thanks.

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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
April 30 2019

I love Greek salad but how can I make this Keto? Thanks.

At 15g carbs, you could start with reducing the number of tomatoes or greens.
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julia
December 10 2019
probably from the cheese and olive oil.. 200 grams is a lot for a salad in my opinion.. I usually put 50 grams of Balkan cheese and that's more than enough for me
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Julia
December 10 2019
reducing the veggies :)
I generally put a lot of leaves in my salads (lettuce, spinach, arugula etc), but keep in mind that every salad is gonna be high in carbs especially if you love veggies, so I usually eat them only when I know that I had a "low carb day".. so if I had bacon and eggs for breakfast, and then salmon and avocado for lunch
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Gabriela
December 14 2019
I love this salad!
I just change the bell pepper to orange or yellow to have different colours and vitamins ;)
One small tip: after chopping the onions, but the slices on a cold water bath for a few minutes. It decreases the acidity.
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Brandon J. Li
January 9 2020
Finally someone that makes the 1 true Greek Salad (Classic Horiatiki) instead of the usual oddball combinations typically found here in the States (including those made by Greek-Americans who also swear their Beef and Lamb Turkish Doner Kabop meat is just like you will get in Athens, Greece. The same G/A folks that also just mix cucumbers and yogurt or horror of horrors add mayo to the mix and call it true Greek Tzatziki). You have redeemed our faith in at least a portion of humanity and now even world peace may be possible ;-)

Wonderful recipe and a deliciously beautiful photo as well.
14
okiedokie
June 19 2020
How many carbs would there be in this salad if I left out the bell peppers and olives, used lemon and white vinegar instead of red wine vinegar and 1 tomato instead of 1.5?
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Crystal Pullen Team Diet Doctor
June 19 2020
Green peppers and olives have about 3 net carbs per 100 grams each. Lemon is about 6.6 net carbs per 100 grams and tomatoes are about 2.69 net carbs per 100 grams. Your end results would depend on the size and amounts you used. All numbers are from the USDA Nutrition Database. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

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