Greek-Style Keeper Vinaigrette + Salad

I'm non certain if I tin displace telephone outcry upward this salad a existent honest-to-goodness Greek salad. For one, there's no tomatoes. It's wintertime hither together with I only can't justify using tasteless tomatoes. Truthfully, I'm non actually a truthful raw love apple tree fan. So there's that. The other affair is that I add together a few to a greater extent than ingredients than only cucumbers, peppers, onion, feta together with olives. In fact, anything that looks expert together with has roughly compaction is a feasible selection when it comes to this large salad. I fifty-fifty scrape out the slimy seeds from the cucumber to piece of employment along things inwards tip summit shape. No slime balls here.

Crunch is an of import component because this is what I telephone outcry upward a Keeper Salad. I brand a large batch of the materials on Lord's Day together with I piece of employment along it inwards a sealed drinking glass container inwards the refrigerator for the residuum of the week. I dip into it daily, adding coloring together with flavour to my lunches on these drab wintertime days.

The commutation to a keeper salad, also choosing the correct crunchy vegetables, is to split upward the ingredients away from the dressing. No soggy salads here. First I mix upward the vinaigrette together with I brand certain that I role ingredients that volition piece of employment along for a expert duad of weeks inwards the fridge. There's no raw garlic or fresh herbs to plow slimy together with black. Instead, I cheat and role garlic powder, onion tabular array salt together with dried herbs. It's a fantastic dressing that I piece of employment along inwards a modest stonemason jounce inwards the fridge.

Once the dressing is made together with the vegetables are chopped, it's smoothen sailing from hither on out. Only when my salad container is nearing empty, I'll restock together with brand a novel salad batch. If yous wanted to add together inwards chickpeas, cooked faro or chopped chicken or tofu, I'd add together those to your plate, along amongst the cheese together with olives, rather than the large salad. Separation is key, remember? So bask your crunchy Greek-style salad all calendar week long.

Keeper Greek Vinaigrette

1/3 c extra virgin olive oil

1/3 c cherry vino vinegar

two tablespoons balsamic vinegar

two teaspoons dijon mustard

1-3 teaspoons dearest or agave syrup

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon onion salt

1/4 teaspoon mixed dried herbs (basically a blend of thyme, basil, oregano)

kosher tabular array salt & freshly solid put down pepper

In a modest jounce combine all ingredients, milk shiver good together with taste. Adjust seasoning to your ain preference. The dressing should piece of employment along inwards your refrigerator for well-nigh two weeks.

Winter Keeper Greek-Style Salad

Substitute the vegetables every bit yous come across lucifer - I skipped the carrots + fennel this fourth dimension around, but they create brand wonderful additions. Crunchy is commutation to a salad that volition final all calendar week long. I was worried well-nigh adding fresh dill to the "big bowl" but it stayed fresh for iv days amongst no wilting or slime.

two large cherry peppers, diced

two large greenish peppers, diced

1 bulb fennel, sliced thinly

1 large carrot, sliced

1/4 cherry onion, sliced thinly

two greenish onions, sliced thinly

1 large English linguistic communication cucumber, seeds removed, chopped

several sprigs of fresh dill, stems removed, chopped

Toss everything from the peppers to the dill inwards a large bowl together with thus transfer to a lidded storage container. I similar those glass-lock ones. Keeps inwards the refrigerator for 4-5 days.

Arugula

Kalamata olives

feta cheese, crumbled

poly peptide or grains (like chickpeas, faro, tofu, chicken, etc.)

keeper Greek vinaigrette

When railroad train to serve, dish out the salad into private plates together with toss amongst roughly arugula, whatever poly peptide or grains, together with thus sprinkle feta a few olives over top. Drizzle amongst your vinaigrette.

By Jeannette Ordas of Everybody likes Sandwiches