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Greek Lunch Box Salad with Feta Cheese and Mint Dressing:
A robust and flavourful salad which makes a perfect lunch box meal to take to work on a 5:2 diet fast day; this is Greek style salad comprises mixed peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, spring onions, Feta cheese and black olives, all bound in a minty dressing. On a non fast day this is DELICIOUS when packed into a hot pita bread as a lunch time sandwich, and crusty bread also makes a wonderful accompaniment.
Ingredients:
- 1 small cucumber (Halved lengthways and with seeds scooped out, then cut into slices)
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 cloves garlic (peeked and crushed)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint leaves
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 10 black olives (pitted, and sliced )
- 175g Feta cheese (crumbled)
- 4 spring onions (chopped into small slices including green tops)
- 450g tomatoes (cut into quarters or eights if large)
- 1 small yellow pepper (de-seeded and sliced)
- 1 small green pepper (de-seeded and sliced)
- 1 small red pepper (de-seeded and sliced)
- 2 tablespoons low calorie or low fat vinaigrette dressing (such as Weight Watchers)
Instructions:
- First make the dressing: Whisk together the mint, garlic, lemon juice and vinaigrette dressing and then season it with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- In a large bowl, or four individual bowls or a lunch box (this recipe serves four) layer the peppers, tomatoes, cucumber and spring onions, and then crumble the Feta cheese over the top and add the sliced black olives.
- Pour the dressing over the salad and serve with crisp breads or rice cakes for 5:2 fast days or with crusty bread on feast days!
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Greek Lunch Box Salad with Feta Cheese and Mint Dressing
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