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Kalamata Salad

The Kalamata salad (a Greek city in the Peloponese) is made of tomatoes, feta cheese and pine nuts roasted with a lemon, olive oil and oregano sauce.

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Last modified on: August 14^th 2022

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For 2 people, you will need:

1 63 g pine nuts
2 100 g feta
3 500 g tomato
4 ½ spring onion (scallion)
5 ½ lemon
6 3 tablespoons olive oil
7 ½ tablespoon dry oregano
8 chive flowers (optional)
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 843 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
42 min.	5 min.	47 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Roast 63 g pine nuts in a small pan over medium heat for 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally, until golden brown.

Let cool.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Cut 100 g feta into small pieces.

Stage 3 - 30 min.

Prepare 500 g tomato, sprinkle them with fine salt, and let them stand (about 1 hour) in a fine sieve to drain.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

In a bowl, pour the feta cheese and pine nuts, add finely chopped ½ spring onion (scallion).

Stage 5 - 4 min.

Prepare the sauce by squeezing ½ lemon, add to the juice the same volume of olive oil, salt, pepper, ½ tablespoon dry oregano and chive flowers (if you have them), mix well.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

In the salad bowl, add the tomatoes, pour the sauce over them, mix well, your Kalamata salad is ready.

Remarks

Of course, to be really "from Kalamata" it would be necessary to add to the salad some olives from this beautiful city...

Keeping

To be enjoyed during the day.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,244 Kcal or 5,208 Kj	33 gr	44 gr	105 gr
62 %	13 %	4 %	16 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
148 Kcal or 620 Kj	4 gr	5 gr	12 gr
7 %	1 %	<1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
622 Kcal or 2,604 Kj	16 gr	22 gr	53 gr
31 %	6 %	2 %	8 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

How much will it cost?

For 2 people : 6.02 €
Per person : 3.01 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Tomato: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Piedmont salad, Tomato meat balls, Stuffed tomatoes and courgettes, Spaghetti Bolognese, Vegetable tian, ... All
	Feta: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad, Pasta with cherry tomatoes, olives and feta cheese, Canapés of red mullet with poppy seeds, Greek salad, Mediterranean toast, ... All
	Pine nuts: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Purple Pesto, Greek Pesto, Crunchy salad, Pesto, Chocolate mendiants, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mixed vegetable curry, Sliced cauliflower with 3 cheeses, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Creamy Winter Vegetable Soup, Vegetable tian, ... All

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