Savoring the final few weeks of summer, I decided to select the Mediterranean to Canada on a stick. Here nosotros select a Greek-Style salad on a bamboo stick amongst a refreshing vinaigrette. Serve equally an appetizer to highlight your primary courses. This fancy presentation volition select your diners inward suspense equally they facial expression what comes next.
You may omit whatever of the suggested ingredients that brand upwardly the combination that I select presented and/or add together your favorites as well as mix upwardly the fellowship of the presentation. Surely if you lot wish to piece of job along things simple, you lot don't select to include stuffed peppers amongst caprine animal cheese, nor slow-roasted cherry tomatoes, simply this gourmet sensation is worth a flake of extra effort. Slow roasting the cherry tomatoes adds an extra natural sweetness to this salad as well as whatever leftovers are perfect for snacking on as well as volition add together a exceptional flourish to many dishes gracing your table.
The stuffed peppers mightiness hold upwardly the star of the present hither or perchance the tedious roasted tomatoes volition have the highest praise, simply everything on this skewer comes together as well as thence good as well as compliments the other ingredients. The basil adds a cleansing demeanour upon to the palate making this a perfect low-cal as well as refreshing appetizer. Vegetarians tin brand skewers equally good equally their meat loving friends.
 Skewered Mediterranean Salad |
Recipe yesteryear Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Published on August 20, 2012
Mediterranean vegetables as well as Feta cheese served on bamboo skewers as well as dressed amongst a low-cal herb as well as olive crude oil vinaigrette
Ingredients:
- 24 cherry tomatoes
- olive crude oil for brushing
- 6 pickled peperoncini (Italian) peppers
- 2 to three oz (50 to 75 g) soft caprine animal cheese
- 3 oz (75 g) Feta cheese, cutting into vi cubes
- 1/2 small-scale cerise onion, cutting into small-scale squares
- 12 pitted Kalamata olives
- 12 leaves from jarred marinated artichokes
- 12 fresh basil leaves
- fresh oregano for garnish
- dried cerise pepper flakes for garnish
Dressing:
- 2 teaspoons lemon olive crude oil (or 1 1/2 teaspoon olive crude oil + 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice)
- 2 teaspoons white balsamic vinegar (or 1 teaspoon each balsamic as well as rice vinegar)
- 1 teaspoon fresh oregano, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh basil, finely choppped
- sea tabular array salt as well as fresh cracked dark pepper to taste
You volition besides need:
- 6 12-inch skewers or bamboo sticks
Instructions:
Begin yesteryear roasting one-half of the tomatoes. Preheat an oven to 250° as well as brush a baking sail amongst olive oil. Cut 12 cherry tomatoes inward one-half as well as adapt on teh baking sheet. Sprinkle to a greater extent than olive crude oil over of the tomatoes as well as flavor amongst a low-cal sprinkle of tabular array salt as well as fresh cracked dark pepper equally good equally roughly dried herbs if desired. Bake for at to the lowest degree 2 hours, turning the tomatoes over occasionally, until they are slightly browned, shriveled as well as dry out simply nonetheless tender amongst a piddling juiciness left. Remove from the oven as well as allow cool. Meanwhile, gently seed the peppers as well as materials amongst caprine animal cheese. Cover as well as refrigerate until produce to use. Whisk together the ingredients for the vinaigrette. Begin assembling the skewers amongst a fresh cherry tomato. Follow amongst a cube of Feta, a slice of onion, olive, artichoke, slow-roasted tomato, onion, stuffed pepper, olive, slow-roasted tomato, artichoke, as well as roughly other fresh cherry love apple tree earlier finishing amongst fresh basil leaves. Repeat for the remaining skewers. Arrange on a serving plate as well as sprinkle the dressing over the skewers. Garnish amongst oregano as well as cerise pepper flakes as well as the remaining basil leaves to cleanse the palate.
Makes 6 appetizers |
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