Healthy Diabetic Salads

Much as I love hot cooked foods, I have to confess to only being a recent convert to salads.

When I was a child, a "salad" was a plateful of lettuce and tomato with some saladcream on the side - I inwardly groaned every time it was served!

Maybe you have a similar "healthy eating" experience.

With the new salad leaves available, from baby spinach, rocket and a wide variety of other leaves, together with the various tomatoes that are available, there's little need for boring salads at your table.

My favourite of all was eaten in the cafeteria at Milan restaurant, served with a bed of leaves, topped with fresh balls of mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, olives and drizzled with olive oil.

Authentic Greek Salad Recipe

After returning from a vacation in Greece and the Greek Islands, we're 100% enthusiastic about some of the recipes we tasted there.

Here's an offering which is quick and easy to put together, but full of flavor and bursting with health:-

Ingredients

• 3-4 tomatoes, cut into wedges or squares
• ½ cucumber, cut into chunky slices or chunks
• ¼ yellow or green pepper
• ¼ red onion, cut into half rings
• 125g feta cheese - cut into small squares
• a handful of kalamata olives
• extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle
• oregano
• black pepper
• salt

Place or layer the salad ingredients in a bowl, mixing with a little freshly ground black pepper.

Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle oregano over the top.

Garnish with the olives.

This is a lovely easy to prepare salad to eat on it's own, or serve with chunks of warmed wholemeal bread.

The Greeks serve it with griddled warm bread lightly drizzled with olive oil.

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