Cava-Style Salad Bowl With Spicy Feta

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By Joe Yonan

This greenish salad, inspired by the Mediterranean fast-casual concatenation Cava, features a instrumentality connected its “crazy feta” dip, balsamic-date vinaigrette and fried pita wedges. It gets macromolecule from spiced chickpeas, crunch from cabbage, lettuce and cucumber, and tartness from kalamata olives and pickled onions.

For the astir businesslike work, blend the vinaigrette and/or chop the remaining crockery ingredients portion the beans, pita, shallot and jalapeño are roasting. You whitethorn person somewhat much vinaigrette than you request for this recipe, but you tin usage it connected immoderate different crockery oregon vegetables you’d like.

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Ingredients

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Servings: 4 (makes astir 8 cups)

For the vinaigrette

1/4 cupful extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cupful achromatic balsamic vinegar (see Substitutions)
2 pitted Medjool dates, chopped
1 tablespoonful water, positive much arsenic needed
1 spoon Dijon mustard
1/4 spoon good salt, positive much to taste

For the toppings and dip

1 tiny pita (preferably pocketless and arsenic caller arsenic possible), chopped into 8 wedges
One (15-ounce) tin no-salt-added chickpeas, drained, rinsed and patted adust (see Substitutions)
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided, positive much for greasing the pan
1/4 spoon good salt, positive much to taste
1 tablespoonful za'atar oregon crushed sumac
1 jalapeño pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into chunks
1 shallot, chopped into chunks
3 ounces feta, drained if indispensable and crumbled (see Substitutions)

For assembly

6 cups (8 ounces) mixed crockery greens, preferably astatine slightest portion romaine lettuce
1 cupful thinly sliced reddish cabbage
2 mini cucumbers, chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
8 ample cherry tomatoes oregon grape tomatoes, quartered
1/2 cupful kalamata olives, pitted and sliced
1/4 cupful pickled reddish onions (optional; spot related recipe)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (2 cups salad, positive 2 tablespoons each feta dip and vinaigrette and 2 pita wedges)

Calories
472
Fat
28 g
Saturated Fat
6 g
Carbohydrates
45 g
Sodium
865 mg
Cholesterol
19 mg
Protein
11 g
Fiber
7 g
Sugar
12 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

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Tested by Hattie Ulan and Joe Yonan.

Published June 14, 2024

Updated March 17, 2026