Greek Salad

This greek salad is made with fresh parsley and oregano.

If you only have room for a few vegetables in your garden, you're most likely to grow salad crops. These are expensive even in season and most of them are simple to grow.

Most homes have space either indoors or out for a few pots. Tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are easy to grow and you can get a good enough crop off a plant or two to make it worth your effort.

Imagine making this salad with your very own home grown tomatoes, pepper, cucumber and herbs.

You can use green or black olives and the fennel is optional. If you use the fennel, just take a potato peeler and make shavings into the bowl.

Greek Salad
6 ripe tomatoes
1 green pepper
1 small cucumber
1 onion - red or a bunch of salad onions
1 bulb of fennel
lemon juice
1/2 tspn sugar
6 oz (150g) feta cheese
12 black olives
handful chopped fresh parsley
half that amount of oregano
olive oil

Put the lemon juice, sugar, herbs and olive oil into a large bowl and stir well together. You can use a little whisk to combine.

Cut the tomotoes, pepper (de-seeded), cucumber and onion into chunks.

Put these into the bowl and add the fennel shavings if using.

Stir it all round so that the salad is coated with the dressing.

Crumble the feta cheese on top and scatter the olives over the top.

You can add another drizzle of olive oil over the cheese if you like.

Serve this with some crusty bread to mop up the lovely dressing.

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