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This bright and vibrant Feta Cheese Salad is bursting with summer flavors! With a beautiful geometric design, it’s a showstopping side salad that’s sure to impress friends and family.
It features two types of melon, sweet nectarines, creamy feta, and a tangy three-ingredient vinaigrette. It’s easy to prepare and a tasty addition to any meal.
Serve the salad for lunch or dinner, bring it to barbecues and picnics, or enjoy it on its own with my no-knead focaccia. However you serve it, this feta salad is sure to be a crowd-pleaser.
❤️ Why You’ll Love Feta Cheese Salad
- Vibrant and showstopping side dish.
- Delicious summery flavors.
- Easy to prepare in advance with only a few ingredients.
Feta Cheese Salad Ingredients
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- Watermelon: Choose a watermelon with a large yellow or orange field spot that feels heavy for its size and sounds hollow when tapped.
- Galia melon: Look for a firm, symmetrical melon that is heavy for its size.
- Nectarine: They need to be firm enough to be shaped.
- Feta: Use a block of feta for the best taste. Keep it cold until assembly so it doesn’t crumble as easily.
- Ingredients for the dressing: Apple cider vinegar for tang, honey for sweetness, extra virgin olive oil for flavor (not pictured), sea salt, and pepper.
How to Make Feta Cheese Salad
- Cut out the melon, cheese, and nectarine into squares and divide each square diagonally into four triangles.
- Arrange the fruit and cheese squares on a platter, and place nectarine slices around the edge.
- Garnish with fresh mint. Season well.
- Mix together the dressing and spoon the dressing onto the platter.
Tips for Success
- Use cold feta so it won’t crumble as easily.
- Taste the dressing to ensure it’s balanced to your liking. If you find it too tangy, add more honey. If it’s too sweet, add more apple cider vinegar.
- Use a round or square platter.
Possible Variations
- Watermelon or Galia: Use a combination of other melons, cucumber, pineapple, or dragonfruit.
- Nectarine: Peaches, apples, pears, or strawberries.
- Feta: Try halloumi.
- Dressing: Swap for olive oil, red wine vinegar, balsamic glaze, lemon juice, or hot honey. Or try pesto, chimichurri, or salsa verde.
- Add-ins: Top with chopped herbs such as fresh oregano, dill, basil, cilantro, or mint. Chopped nuts and cherry tomatoes would be a delicious addition, too.
- Cookie cutter: If you don’t have a square cutter, shape the feta into symmetrical squares, then cut the remaining ingredients the same size, using the feta squares as your guide.
Serving Suggestion
Arrange the melon, cheese, and nectarine pieces as I have, or place them randomly for a different look.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge and enjoy within 2 days.
FAQs
Sure, You can make the salad a few hours in advance. Store it in the fridge, cover with plastic wrap, and keep the dressing separate until you are ready to serve.
Dice the melon and nectarines in similar-sized pieces, and top the fruit with crumbled feta. Drizzle the dressing on top.
Greek salad features veggies such as tomatoes, cucumbers, Kalamata olives, red onion, green bell pepper, and feta. It’s tossed with a simple vinaigrette. This version is more similar to a watermelon-and-feta salad given it’s fruit-based.
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Feta Cheese Salad
Equipment
- round serving platter
Ingredients
- 1 slice watermelon
- 1 slice Galia melon
- 3 nectarines
- 1 block feta, 150 grams
Dressing
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1.5 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
Garnish
- fresh mint leaves
Instructions
- Cut out four watermelon, Galia, nectarine, and feta squares.
- Slice each square along both diagonals to get four equal-sized triangles.
- Arrange the pieces on a round platter, alternating them.
- Trim the remaining nectarine into slices, and place them around the edge of the salad.
- Mix the dressing ingredients (olive oil, honey, and apple cider vinegar) in a small bowl.
- Spoon the dressing along the outer rim.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
