Greek Lunch Box Salad with Feta Cheese and Mint Dressing

Serves	4
Prep time	10 minutes
Dietary	Vegetarian
Meal type	Lunch, Salad, Side Dish, Snack, Starter
Misc	Child Friendly, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold
Occasion	Barbecue, Casual Party
By author	Karen S Burns-Booth

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)

Note

A robust and flavourful salad which makes a perfect lunch box meal to take to work on a 5:2 diet fast day; this Greek style salad comprises mixed peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, spring onions, Feta cheese and black olives, all bound in a minty lemon 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. Only 200 calories per serving or 4 points on Weight Watchers. (Pre pro-points)

Directions

Step 1	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.
Step 2	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.
Step 3	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!