Heart-Shaped Greek Village Salad

It is always fun to play with your food. Think of your plate as your canvas and create fun and delicious masterpieces that will put a smile on the person you are serving it to. This salad does just that. Make it as a side to your favorite meal or make the heart even bigger and use full size tomatoes, cucumbers, and other veggies.

You can use a larger cookie cutter to make shape or you can free-hand it. I am sure you have heard the sane “you eat with your eyes”, this cute looking salad hits on all your senses.

You will need:

• 10 cherry tomatoes, sliced into 1/6 inch rounds
• 1 mini cucumber, about 6 inches long, sliced into 1/8 inch rounds
• 1 mini red pepper, thinly sliced in rounds
• 1 shallot, about an inch in diameter, thinly sliced into rounds
• 1 to 1 1/2 ounce feta cheese, crumbled
• 6 pitted Kalamata olives, sliced or cut into small pieces
• Dried oregano
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons red wine or apple cider vinegar
• Salt, to taste
• Large heart cookie cutter, optional

Steps:

1. Place large heart cookie cutter on a plate and alternately layer veggies. I did tomato, cucumber, red pepper, shallot. Repeat all the way around cutter and into center. If you don’t have a large cutter in the shape you want you can free-hand it.
2. Slowly remove cutter and place on second plate and do the same.
3. Sprinkle each plate with feta crumbles and then dot with pieces of olive.
4. Lastly, sprinkle some oregano on each salad. When you are ready to serve drizzle with the olive oil, vinegar, and a sprinkle of salt.

Kali Orexi!