Name: Wild rocket & cos lettuce salad
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 2 cos or romaine lettuce hearts; crusty bread and a cheese or fish dish, to serve; large handful of rocket/arugula; 15–30 ml/1–2 tbsp lemon juice; salt; 75 ml/5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 30–45 ml/2–3 tbsp finely chopped fresh dill; 3–4 sprigs of fresh flat leaf parsley, coarsely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

About

Salads in Greece are clean-tasting and often quite lemony in flavour, like this one, maroulosalata me roka. The national preference for strong-tasting leaves – sometimes quite bitter ones – is also reflected in salads. Wild rocket is a favourite ingredient, added to give salads a peppery edge.

Ingredients

large handful of rocket/arugula
2 cos or romaine lettuce hearts
3–4

Method

If the rocket leaves are young and tender, they can be left whole, but older ones should be trimmed of thick stalks and then sliced coarsely. Discard any tough stalks.