Quick Greek Bread Salad (Cretan Salad A.K.A Dakos)

Quick Greek Bread Salad Recipe

Dakos is a little known, kind of Greek salad, well, it's actually from Crete. It's a simple to make and absolutely delicious. And all it is, is bread, olive oil, and tomatoes topped with cheese. You could call it Greek bruschetta

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Ingredients

2 barley rusk or dried bread
2 tomatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 cup feta cheese
1 cup Greek yogurt
1 handful of oregano
1 tsp chili flakes
1 tbsp honey
salt pepper
juice of half a lemon

First we are going to start with a cup of feta cheese and a cup of Greek yogurt.
Dakos actually uses mazrita cheese, but it's not that easy to find unless you have a really great Greek grocer, so we are making our own substitute. If you can find it though, you can always use the mazitra.

Add 1 tbsp of chili flakes for a little spice. This is optional if you don't like heat. Grind in 1 tsp pepper and mix until smooth and well combined.

Next, we are going to grate two large tomatoes, discarding the skin. We just want the soft insides.

Place your grated tomatoes into a bowl, adding in a tbsp of honey, 1\2 tsp salt, and the juice of half a lemon. You can also add in the zest of one lemon, some black pepper, 1 tbsp olive oil, a hand full of fresh oregano (or a tsp of dried if you don't have any fresh). Mix to combine everything.

Place two barley rusks on a plate. If you can't get barley rusks, just take some bread and leave it out overnight, or you can bake it in your oven. But you want a dry, hard piece of bread for this job. Now, drizzle with olive oil. Top with the tomatoes and feta cheese mixture. Drizzle some more olive oil over the top with a sprinkle of oregano and enjoy!

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[THEFOODDEE]

Congrats Ryan Leddy for winning the pressure cooker!

[karindurin]

That's definitely a different recipe! Excited to try it!!!

[rondaborneman]

We had this in Greece! Now I can make at home :)

[facepalmjesus]

as a Cretan myself i have to comment on this...

first you need to wet a bit the rusk before you put things on top of it becuase its very hard and dry.

For the tomato sauce use vinegar instead of lemon juice and also some chopped red please there is no yogurt on dakos salad

Some olives and caper are MUST for toppings

[Ter]

That looks awesome & so easy to make too! MYST TRY! *SHARED*

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