From my understanding, the wealth of the Greek kitchen in vegetarian dishes and endless ways to cook vegetables comes from how poor the people were in the past and couldn’t afford meat, so they had to turn to the more affordable vegetables and legumes. This traditional Greek salad highlights this history lesson.

(Ironic how things have changed, huh?)

When I convinced myself to eat everything in the salad, I was amazed by the flavor!

The secret of this salad is the onion rings, without it, there is no Greek character!

Ingredients:

• 2 tomatoes
• 1 green pepper
• 1 cucumber
• 1 onion
• olives
• capers
• oregano
• sea salt
• vinegar if you like
• vegan cheese (you could always try our vegan Parmesan recipe or our vegan Tofu Ricotta cheese recipe!)
• olive oil

Wash your vegetables. Chop the pepper, the cucumber and the tomatoes. Slice your onion.  Add some capers – careful, they are potent those little ones! Add the olives, without the pits, so you can enjoy your salad without distractions. Sprinkle sea salt, oregano and olive oil.  I think that vinegar goes great with cucumber, that is if you eat cucumber and vinegar though!

This salad is perfect for the inside of a loaf of bread and so it becomes a wonderful sandwich! Take a sharp knife and cut the loaf of bread in half, removing the insides, fill it with the salad and enjoy!

I took the loaf idea out of the site www.sintagespareas.gr

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