Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cretan dakos. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Cretan dakos is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Cretan dakos is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cretan dakos using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cretan dakos:

1. Make ready 3 barley rusks
2. Make ready 2 red tomatoes firm and ripe
3. Take 50 gr feta cheese
4. Take 2 tsp pitted and sliced olives (green or black)
5. Make ready 2 tsp caper flowers
6. Prepare some good quality olive oil
7. Make ready 1 pinch sea salt
8. Make ready 1 pinch oregano

In Greek: ντάκος, pronounced DAH-kohss A traditional meze or a light meal on the island of Crete, dakos (also called "koukouvayia") is often called "Greek bruschetta," and is easy to make with few ingredients and no cooking. Dakos/ Ntakos is a traditional Greek salad from the island of Crete. Extra virgin olive oil, juicy tomatoes, salty feta cheese combine to form an amazing, full of mediteranean flavors Greek dish! This Cretan appetizer is something very similar to the Italian's bruschetta, just with a Greek twist.

Instructions to make Cretan dakos:

1. Brake the rusks into rough chunks and place them in a plate.
2. Wash and cube the tomatoes, put them on top of the rusks.
3. Break the feta cheese in chunks on top of the tomatoes.
4. Drizzle with some good quality olive oil.
5. Add the sea salt, the oregano, the capers and the olives.
6. Enjoy!

Extra virgin olive oil, juicy tomatoes, salty feta cheese combine to form an amazing, full of mediteranean flavors Greek dish! This Cretan appetizer is something very similar to the Italian's bruschetta, just with a Greek twist. The acidity of the tomatoes is cut and perfectly balanced by the saltiness of the feta and pushed into deliciousness by the Kalamata olives. While we were in Crete, we had it with wine, so that's what we recommend pairing it with. Dakos, also called koukouvagia or koukouvayia (κουκουβάγια) or, in the east of Crete, kouloukopsomo (κουλουρα ψωμι) is the true pride of the Cretan culinary art, and one of the most popular mezedhes of the island.

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