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Greek traditional cretan dakos salad. With rusks, tomatoes and olive oil. A vegan recipe.

Cretan dakos salad (vegan)

Traditional Cretan salad with rusks, tomatoes and olive oil as main indgredients. It's usually served as a side dish, but it's also a wonderful main course, complete, nutritious and so delicious!

Course Main Dishes, Appetizers, Salads

Cuisine Greek, Greek / Vegan, Greek Traditional, Cretan, Mediterranean

Keyword vegan, vegan, olive oil, greek, summer, cretan, mediterranean, dakos, tomato, rusk, rusks, salad, recipe

Prep Time 10

Total Time 10

Servings salad as an accompaniment for two people

Calories 526kcal

Author Thodoris Tibilis

Ingredients

6 small rusks or 3 large (preferably barley rusks)
2 tomatoes grated
4 cherry tomatoes cut in half (or 1 small tomato cut into cubes)
10 olives
2 Tbsp capers (optional)
3 slices green bell pepper
¼ cup olive oil
1 tsp red vinegar from grapes
1 tsp balsamic vinegar (optional)
1 Tbsp oregano
salt and pepper

Instructions

Dakos

In a cup or bowl, mix the olive oil with the vinegar, salt and pepper and keep it aside.
In a soup plate or large bowl, first place the rusks. Add the grated tomato on top and then pour in the olive oil and vinegar mix.
Next, add the cherry tomatoes, peppers, olives, capers and oregano.

Serving

Serve immediately, 'cause the longer you wait the softer the rusks get from the tomato juices and olive oil.
We can accompany our salad with the wonderful Greek vegan feta cheese !

Notes

In addition to oregano, we can add ½ etc. dried thyme or thyme.
We can enrich the dako by adding 2 chopped sun-dried tomatoes.
Interesting vegan variations are also created by adding other materials, such as tofu (grated or in cubes), chopped dill, parsley, mint, lettuce, arugula, caper leaves, spring onions, pickles or roasted Florina peppers.
If you want, you can also try it with barley small rusks.

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