Upgrade your Greek salad!

Enjoy Chef Devan Rajkumar's modern take on a Greek salad.
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Ingredients

2 cups
cooked brown rice
1 cup
pitted kalamata olives
1
cucumber
2 cups
of arugula
½ cup
of feta
1 tsp
oregano
1
ziploc bag

Vinaigrette

½ cup
red wine vinegar
5
pitted kalamata olives
1 cup
olive oil
1/3 tsp
oregano
1 tbsp
honey
½ tsp
of salt
¼ tsp
fresh cracked black pepper

Pickled Red Onions

1 cup
of red wine vinegar
¼ cup
of white vinegar
1 cup
of sugar
½ tsp
oregano

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 250F. Pat kalamata olives with paper towel and transfer to a wire rack. Bake in oven until completely dry and crispy, approximately 3 hours. Remove from oven and pulse in food processor to create dehydrated kalamata olive soil.
  2. For pickled onions bring vinegars and sugar to a simmer then cool down, ad onions and allow to pickle over night.
  3. For compressed cucumber deseed the cucumber and brunoise. Place in a ziploc bag in a single layer and remove as much air as possible. Place in fridge and allow to compress overnight.
  4. Place all ingredients for vinaigrette except oil in a blender and blend until incorporated well. Slowly drizzle in olive oil to emulsify.
  5. Begin with brown rice at the bottom of the bowl and drizzle one teaspoon of vinaigrette on top. Top with arugula, cucumber and onions. Drizzle more vinaigrette and top with feta and dehydrated olives.

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