Salty Greek Toast

The saltiness of feta combined with the glory of Kalamata olives, all mixed with olive oil and bread.  It’s a pretty good snack or sidedish.

This is so easy to make.  You need to be able to mix things and toast things.

Here’s what you need to make Salty Greek Toast:

• Bread (2 or 3 large rolls, or 1 baguette, etc.)
• 1/2 cup of olive oil
• 1/2 cup of feta cheese (or more!)
• 7 Kalamata olives
• A bit of fresh oregano
• Some fresh-cracked black pepper

  Here’s how to make Salty Greek Toast:

1.  Use a liquid measuring glass to measure out 1/2 a cup of olive oil.

Pouring oil into a measuring cup

2.  Add some freshly-cracked black pepper.

Yummy pepper added

3.  Cut the oregano up into really small pieces and add it in.

Chopped-up oregano

4.  Use a fork to stir it all together.

Stir it up

5.  Cut the Kalamata olives into pieces around the pits.  Then cut them into smaller pieces and put them aside.  Make sure you don’t keep any of the olive pits.

Cutting around the olive pit

Smaller pieces

6.  Cut the bread into pieces about 1/2 – 3/4 of an inch thick.

Slicing the roll

7.  Arrange the bread slices on your toaster oven baking sheet.

On the baking sheet

8.  Stir up the oil again and then use the spoon to put some oil on each piece of bread.  After you put the oil on the bread, use the back of the spoon to spread the oil all over the top side of the piece of bread.

Yummy oil

Spooning the oil on

Covered with oil

9.  Sprinkle the bread with the Kalamata olive pieces and then the Feta cheese.

Sprinkled with olives and Feta

10.  Cook in your toaster oven for about 10 minutes – watch the feta, once it starts to brown, your Salty Greek Toast is done!

Salty Greek Toast goes great as a sidedish to A Streak of Greek Rigatoni: 

Rockin’ the left-hand side of the plate

  

Here’s what it costs to make Salty Greek Toast:

• Bread:  $0.60
• Olive oil:  $0.40
• Feta cheese:  $2.50
• Olive:  $0.25
• Oregano:  $0.30
• Pepper:  $0.03

   Total cost to make:  $4.08

Depending on your bread choice, this makes enough for one, two, three, or four people.  It’s salty and tasty!

  Here are some other toasty recipes:

• Bruschetta
• Grilled Cheese with Jalapeno