Welcome. Deronda here with foods 101. Today
I'm going to show you how to make this Feta Cheese
Dressing. Absolutely scrumptious if you're a feta cheese
lover. You're gonna love this feta cheese dressing.
The ingredients you're gonna need is a five ounce package
of feta cheese, one half cup of whole sour cream,
1/4 teaspoon of fresh cracked pepper, 1 garlic clove and I'm going to show you
how to mince this down later, 1 tablespoon of white wine vinegar, 1
green onion that I've chopped down. Some of you in the world will know this as
a spring onion. 1/4 teaspoon of dried dill. If you're
using fresh dill use one teaspoon, one teaspoon of dried
oregano. If you're using fresh use one tablespoon,
and 1/4 cup of whole buttermilk. So simple to get together.
In a mixing bowl we're adding that buttermilk
along with that sour cream. I love these little spatulas. I don't know if you see
them out and about when you're shopping but they come in very handy when you're
trying to get things out of a measuring cup. Add your
black pepper, your dried oregano, dried dill, white wine vinegar. With a
whisk we're going to combine these ingredients.
I'm going to serve this Feta Cheese Dressing with a wedge salad.
I'm going to show you how to do that after we get all of our ingredients
incorporated. Whoo, and put it in the refrigerator. Wow
and that smells so delicious. Let me show you how we're going to mince
down that garlic. To mince that garlic you see the peel is still on.
We're going to take the back of a chef's knife lay it flat take the palm of your
hand and just smash it down and that peel will come
right off your garlic. You can disregard the end of your garlic.
If you see any green on your garlic you also want to
remove that. The green part of the garlic will make your dish bitter. With your chef's
knife we're going to run it back and forth
through our garlic until we get a fine mince on it. When it's looking like this
it's ready to add to your Feta Cheese Dressing.
Drop it in just like that and we're going to whisk it
in and then set this off to the side. Using the same cutting board that we use
for the garlic. I'm going to show you how I cut down my
green onion. I've already chopped down my green
onion for the dressing but we're going to use this for the
the top of our wedge salad once we add this Feta Cheese Dressing to it.
It's gonna be fabulous. If you want you can take a knife go
through it to make it just a little bit finer.
Add this into a bowl. To break down the feta I use
the back of a fork. I just start peeling off little pieces
of that feta cheese. You can leave this feta cheese in large chunks
or you can break it down into small chunks. I'm going to leave
that up to you. I like my feta cheese looking just like
that. Oh wow does it smell fantastic. Back with
the dressing we're gonna add it in and with your fork
we're gonna stir it around until that feta cheese is well combined
and well coated with your other ingredients. Cover
and chill in the refrigerator up to two hours
or overnight. I want to show you how to make a wedge salad
using this Feta Cheese Dressing. I've got a head
of iceberg lettuce. You see the core here of your iceberg lettuce
you're just going to lay it on a flat surface and you're going to push it down
and hopefully this will break loose the inside of the core here and it should
just come right out. Just like that and you can discard this.
If you have some layers here on the outside you can
remove like you know we got some little spots right there
we can just go ahead and remove it. This is ready for a
water bath. This water bath is the secret to making this iceberg lettuce
lovely and crunchy. We're just gonna dip it in
water. You can also let cool tap running water run down in here
because the idea is get it into the layers of your iceberg
lettuce. Swish it around and then let it drain till you can hear no more
water draining out. We can set the water off to the side.
We're going to bring over a paper towel and apply our iceberg lettuce
here, because on the inside of your lettuce
it's still nice and damp from that water. Cut through it and we're gonna make
quarters.
If you have fly away pieces of lettuce you can go ahead and discard these
or go ahead and add it right on here. We have one wedge.
I like wrapping each of mine separately in paper towels. Make sure that paper
towel is damp. Keep the layer portion of your salad down so the water
can continue draining while chilling. Let this wedge
of iceberg lettuce chill in the refrigerator
15 to 20 minutes. Remember when you're picking a head of iceberg lettuce
you want it nice and soft you don't want it
hard and solid. You want your layers to be
pliable like this. This is our second wedge piece of iceberg. I'm going to
cover it with paper towel and I'm going to sit this in the
refrigerator and let it chill. I'm going to show you how to arrange
this wedge salad with this Feta Cheese Dressing. You see those
layers there that's what you're looking for. With that
Feta Dressing and if you want your dressing a
little thinner all you need to add is a little bit more
buttermilk. Wow just look at it oozing down over that
wedge of iceberg lettuce. I'm gonna add a few
green onions here on the top for just color and a few little tomatoes not
necessary but I'm gonna leave that up to you.
Some fresh cracked pepper which is not necessary. I'm gonna leave
that up to you. Look what a beautiful salad that is. Gotta dig
in and we gotta get some of that Feta Cheese Dressing on
there. Here goes. Wow.
It's gotta have some more. Mmm oh my goodness that green onion
and that feta cheese. You probably noticed
I didn't put any salt in the Feta Cheese Dressing
and that's just because this Feta Cheese Dressing
is really salty enough on its own, but add salt if you wish. The peppers coming
through. Wow and that feta cheese
is absolutely delicious on this crunchy iceberg lettuce. You know the secret on
how to make this iceberg lettuce crunchy and you know how to make this homemade
feta dressing. If you're a feta cheese fan you're
absolutely gonna love this. It's amazing. I'm Deronda with foods 101.
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If you're wondering how to store this Feta Cheese Dressing just store it in a
mason jar and seal it tightly. It'll stay fresh
up to 4 days.