Now what tighten the heat feel like having a salad, but many times we are lazy to change the repertoire. Surely not with this variation on the typical Greek salad.
I got to know the Dakos salad at the Periplo Greek restaurant in Madrid: a small Greek tavern in the Chamberí neighborhood where you eat in luxury. There they nail this salad using the typical island barley bread: a hard bread that is moistened with the dressing and you are dying.
This bread is not easily found in Spain. You have to order it online and it’s not cheap. But it can be perfectly replaced by any hard bread that we have left over from other days, which makes this salad the perfect harvesting recipe.
This recipe it has no mysteryalthough it is convenient to prepare it a little in advance so that the bread soaks well and using all the ingredients at room temperature.
The first thing we’re going to do is put the bread in the bottom of a bowl. Now we are going to peel and cut the tomatoes very finely. In fact, they can also be grated, but leaving some texture. We can also finely chop a tomato and grate the other, so that there are different textures. To taste.
Put the tomato on the bread, so that it softens. Then add a piece of crumbled feta cheese, a handful of pitted olives (in Greece they use kalamata olives, but here we can use olives from Aragon, which are easier to find and just as good), a tablespoon of capers, oregano, salt, black pepper and a good amount of oil extra virgin olive. And ready!
6 × Young Tsantali Retsina (Box of 6 Bottles of 75 cl)
With what to accompany the Dakos salad
This recipe has no mystery, but you’re dying, and it serves as a light single dish or as a garnish for meat or fish. To drink, it goes great with a retsina wine: a typical Greek wine, slightly bitter, which owed its flavor to the resin of the Aleppo pine, with which the amphorae were sealed in ancient times. If you can’t find it, choose a not too dry white wine or a rosé.
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