Lettuce Dill and Feta Cheese Salad

A family salad platter with lettuce and dill salad, shown garnished with fresh lemon slices.

This refreshing Mediterranean salad with lettuce, dill, feta cheese and freshly squeezed lemon juice makes for a great side dish to roasts, casseroles and grilled foods.

Course Salad

Cuisine Albanian, Mediterranean

Keyword lettuce dill salad

Prep Time 10

Total Time 10

Servings servings

Calories 180kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

1 salad bowl
1 Salad mixing utensils

Ingredients

1 romaine lettuce head about 1 pound (half a kilogram)
5 green onions
1 cup fresh dill
1 lemon
pinch salt
2 ozs feta cheese
4 tbsps olive oil extra virgin

Instructions

Wash lettuce leaves carefully to remove any impurities hiding in between the leaves. Let air dry in a colander or use a salad spinner to remove the extra water. Chop lettuce in very thin strips and add to salad bowl.
Chop the top off of green onions, remove one outer layer. Rinse carefully then chop green onions. Add the chopped scallions over lettuce.
Make sure dill is rinsed before using. You can rinse a bunch of dill then hang it upside down in your kitchen to let it air dry before using it. Chop off a cup of dill (usually 1 bunch as sold in my grocery store yields about 1 cup). Add dill in the salad bowl as well.
Add a pinch of salt and squeeze half a lemon over the salad (if lemon is on the smaller size, squeeze the whole lemon). Use your hands to massage all the ingredients together by squeezing slightly. All the flavors will fuse together and salad volume will go down considerably. If you are not ready to serve the salad yet, at this point refrigerate it.
As soon as you are ready to to serve the salad, add feta cheese crumbles and olive oil over the salad bowl. I use block feta cheese and crumble it using a fork. Mix salad and serve with your favorite Mediterranean meals:).

Notes

Check for salt before serving, it's easy to go over with salt in this salad so less is always better initially. Also keep in mind that feta cheese usually has a lot of salt as well.
I tend to add sliced English cucumbers and olives to this salad. Also, you can experiment with more herbs and see if you like the flavor (add mint and oregano, even parsley). But the star of the salad is dill.

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