Feta Cheese "dip" tomato, chilli and herbs
Ingredients
- 50 gm red onion very finely diced
- 60 ml lemon Juice
- 1 teaspoon caster sugar fine
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon Chopped chilli
- 1 whole tomato small, very finely diced
- 1 small long red pepper 1/2 a red capsicumvery finely diced
- 100 gm black olives with or without seeds
- 125 ml olive oil a strong punchy one
- 1 /2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 cup Chopped soft herbs- parsley, basil, fennel tops
- A grind or two of pepper
- 250 gm Danish feta The nice creamy kind
Instructions
- Mix the first 4 ingredients -lemon,onion,sugar and salt. Stand till the other ingredients are ready. This "cooks" the onion.
- Mix all of the other finely diced ingredients together, then add the onion mix.
- Stir and taste . Add more onion, salt and pepper or chilli.
- Open the cheese and put onto a dish . Spoon the salsa over the cheese.
Lebanese bread Crisps
- Cut a couple of Lebanese bread rounds into pieces (approx 5-6 cm). Put a1/2 cup of olive oil into a bowl with a teaspoon salt, fresh pepper, 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika. Toss the bread in this mix and then lay onto lined trays and bake till starting to colour. Cool and use with this cheese dip.