Greek salad sauce at home

Original, spicy, light, the best! Sauce for Greek salad at home is a recipe that even a novice housewife can handle. It is prepared from the most common products that can be found in any refrigerator. This sauce is also suitable for other vegetable salads.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 2 % 1 g
Fats 89 % 42 g
Carbohydrates 9 % 4 g
400 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 15 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make Greek salad sauce at home? First prepare the products for him, and then the salad itself, so that it remains only to fill it and immediately serve it to the table. Wash the lemon, cut it in half across. Take one half, remove the bones and squeeze lemon juice out of it in any way. This can be done with your hands, using a fork, but it is most convenient to use a citrus juicer.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Now peel the garlic from the husk. Chop the garlic cloves through a press. If you plan to eat the salad right away, then knead the sauce in a small bowl. If you want to cook only the dressing, and the salad later, then you can use a small jar with a lid, at the bottom of which put crushed garlic, or rather garlic mush.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Then add a little salt, a pinch of pepper and 1 teaspoon of oregano. Adjust the amount of spices to your liking.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Now pour the previously squeezed lemon juice into a bowl or jar.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Next, pour the spices and lemon juice with olive oil. Instead of olive oil, you can use any vegetable to taste. Mix all the ingredients of the sauce thoroughly with a fork. If you are mixing the sauce in a jar, then close it with a lid and shake it several times so that the ingredients are evenly distributed in the dressing.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    The Greek salad sauce is ready! Season the salad with it and serve it on the table. If you cooked it in a jar and are not going to fill the salad right away, then close the jar with a lid and put it in the refrigerator. Enjoy your meal!

Before, when I was preparing a Greek salad, I always seasoned it with classic olive oil without any additives. After trying the salad, seasoned with a special sauce, I felt new interesting taste notes. The salad turns out quite different, vegetables, of course, remain vegetables, but the taste sensations are completely different. Lemon juice and oregano spice stand out in the dressing, which give a special taste to the salad. As a result, this sauce is universal, as it is suitable not only for dressing Greek salad, but also for other light vegetable salads. I advise everyone to try it.

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper). 

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Lemon - 16   kcal/100g
  • Lemon zest - 47   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Dried oregano - 306   kcal/100g
  • Oregano - 306   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g

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