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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 8 people, you will need:

1 1 cup pine nuts
2 1 ¾ cup feta
3 0 kg 8 g tomato
4 2 spring onions (scallions)
5 2 lemons
6 10 tablespoons olive oil
7 2 tablespoons dry oregano
8 chive flowers (optional)
9 salt
10 pepper

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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 1 cup 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 1 ¾ cup feta into small pieces.

Stage 3 - 30 min.

Prepare 0 kg 8 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 2 spring onions (scallions).

Stage 5 - 4 min.

Prepare the sauce by squeezing 2 lemons, add to the juice the same volume of olive oil, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons 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
4,713 Kcal or 19,732 Kj	130 gr	180 gr	389 gr
236 %	50 %	17 %	59 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
141 Kcal or 590 Kj	4 gr	5 gr	12 gr
7 %	1 %	1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
589 Kcal or 2,466 Kj	16 gr	22 gr	49 gr
29 %	6 %	2 %	7 %

% 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 8 people : 23.89 €
Per person : 2.99 €

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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: Greek style sandwiches, Zucchini and tomato remoulade, How to peel tomatoes using a flame, Piedmont salad, Moussaka, ... All
	Feta: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Vegetable rosette tart, Multicoloured cucumber-tomato salad, Greek salad, Greek style sandwiches, Greek Pesto, ... All
	Pine nuts: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Greek-style stuffed courgettes, Chocolate mendiants, Pesto, Crunchy salad, Purple Pesto, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Greek Pesto, Pan-fried scallops and chanterelles with Noilly Prat sauce, Rabbit civet, Firied fillet of sea bream with polenta, Creamy Winter Vegetable Soup, ... All

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