Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, cretan dakos. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
A traditional meze or light meal on the island of Crete, dakos is often called "Greek bruschetta," and is easy to make with few ingredients and no cooking. The most known Cretan salad is what we call kritikos dakos. It is delicious, it is healthy, it is the ultimate representation of They are super hard and super healthy.
Cretan dakos is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Cretan dakos is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cretan dakos using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cretan dakos:
- Get 3 barley rusks
- Prepare 2 red tomatoes firm and ripe
- Get 50 gr feta cheese
- Take 2 tsp pitted and sliced olives (green or black)
- Make ready 2 tsp caper flowers
- Make ready some good quality olive oil
- Make ready 1 pinch sea salt
- Take 1 pinch oregano
Garnishing with extra virgin, good quality olive oil will give the perfect finishing touch to this traditional Cretan rusks with tomatoes. Bread rusks paximádia are enjoyed throughout Greece. Dakos is a traditional Cretan dish consisting of a dry barley rusk that is topped with crumbled feta cheese, chopped tomatoes, olives, capers, and herbs such as oregano. Cretan dakos is often served as a salad, a light meal, or as part of an array of mezedes.
Instructions to make Cretan dakos:
- Brake the rusks into rough chunks and place them in a plate.
- Wash and cube the tomatoes, put them on top of the rusks.
- Break the feta cheese in chunks on top of the tomatoes.
- Drizzle with some good quality olive oil.
- Add the sea salt, the oregano, the capers and the olives.
- Enjoy!
Its basis is a Cretan dry barley rusk (called paximadia in Greek); think of it as a large, super hard crouton. Greek Cretan dakos by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis. A delicious Greek recipe from the island of Crete for a unique salad with barley rusks! Sprinkle the grated cheese, oregano, salt and pepper over it. Cretan Dakos is ready to serve.
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