Cretan Dakos Salad Recipe: Make The Most Traditional Cretan Salad

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Cretan dakos salad also known as ntakos is a much loved traditional Cretan salad. It is often served as a salad, light meal or in bite sized appetizers called meze.

This Cretan dakos salad recipe is super simple to make. It consists of a Cretan barley rusk topped with juicy tomatoes, cheese and olive oil.

All you need is a few great quality ingredients for delicious Greek Mediterrean flavors.

We first discovered Cretan dakos salad in Chania Crete offered as a welcoming appetizer by our Airbnb host.

Here are the ingredients to make Cretan dakos salad for about 4 people.

Ingredients

Greek Mizithra cheese, 4.4 oz or 120 grams
4 Barley Rusk – round slices
3 Large Tomatoes
⅓ cup of high quality extra virgin olive oil, preferably Cretan or Greek
Dried Oregano
Black Kalamata Greek olives
Salt to taste
Optional – fresh oregano

Instructions
1- Slice the tomatoes in half and grate them using the medium size holes of your grater
2- Grate down as close to the skin as possible. Do not grate the skin. Place your coarsely grated tomato juice in a bowl or plate.
3- Wet each rusk under cold running water and shake off any excess water and place on a plate. Cretan rusks are very hard but you do not want to soften them too much as you do not want soggy dakos. The dakos should still be crunchy but easily breakable.
4- Repeat the process for all the pieces of barley rusk
5- Pour one tablespoon of of high quality extra virgin olive oil on each piece of rusk, spreading it around with a spoon
6- Next, take a spoonful of tomato juice and spread it all around each piece of rusk
7- Sprinkle a little salt and dried oregano on each rusk
8- Using your hands, break up the mizithra cheese and sprinkle it on top of each rusk
9- Sprinkle a little bit of oregano on the rusk
10- Drizzle a little bit of extra virgin olive oil on the rusk and top with black kalamata olives
11- Serve immediately

Notes: Feel free to add as much or as little extra virgin olive oil as you like

If you have fresh oregano available, chop up a little for even more delightful flavors.

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Enjoy!

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