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Feta, Kasseri, Kefolograviera, Kefalotiri & Vlahotiri Greek Cheese. Crumble the feta cheese and myzithra (soft cheese) with a fork, or grate it with a grater. To put the dish together, spread the grated tomato on the rusks and add the crumbled cheese.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have traditional cretan barley dakos with feta cheese and tomatoes using 7 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Cretan Barley Dakos with Feta Cheese and Tomatoes:
- Take 2 large Rusks
- Take 2 Medium Tomatoes diced
- Get 200 grams Feta Cheese
- Take 2 Garlic Cloves diced (optional)
- Prepare 1/3 grams Olive Oil
- Prepare Salt
- Prepare Oregano
The dish is usually served as a meze or light dinner. Dakos consists of a slice of cracked barley bread, called paximadi, that is moistened and garnished with crushed or grated ripe tomato and crumbled feta or mizithra cheese. It is flavored with oregano and garnished with olives as well as a generous dose of extra virgin olive oil, preferably from Crete. Garnishing with extra virgin, good quality olive oil will give the perfect finish to this traditional Cretan nuts with tomatoes and feta plate.
Instructions to make Traditional Cretan Barley Dakos with Feta Cheese and Tomatoes:
- Dice tomatoes into small pieces…add them on top of tomatoes and let the juice flow through the Rusk until soften..I would recommend about 20 minutes.
- Add salt, garlic and 1/2 of the olive oil and top with Feta Cheese and the rest of the olive oil. Sprinkle on Oregano and it is ready to eat. Simple!!! Kali Orexi!!! 🙂
Moisten the nuts with a little water and chill with olive oil. Dakos or Ntakos, (pronounced NTAH - kos) is the name of a Cretan barley rusk. This salad is made using this rusk as its base and it is topped with cubed tomatoes, xinomyzithra (a whey cheese made in Crete) or a mixture of feta anthotyros (similar to ricotta) and flavoured with oregano. The delicious Cretan version of bruschetta, Dakos is a traditional meze also eaten as a light meal. Preparation It is slightly soaked in water and drizzled with olive oil and then consumed with cheese or tomato or olives, sometimes just olive oil and oregano.
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