One Easy Appetizer, Two Options: Roasted Peppers & Feta

This simple appetizer combines the tastes of roasted red peppers and feta cheese - with two different serving options. The first is a simple coil of pepper around a small square of cheese, fastened with a toothpick and sprinkled with a pinch of crushed Greek oregano (at right in photo). The second starts with that same coil of pepper around the cheese, but it is placed on top of a dollop of olive tapenade for a more complex taste treat (photo, left). Both tastes are fabulous, both make wonderful appetizers, hors d'oeuvres, or mezedes, and both are very easy to prepare.

The key to great results is to either roast and marinate your own pimiento peppers or to use jarred roasted peppers that specify "pimiento" peppers - and preferably those famous Greek pimientos from Florina!

Roasted red peppers are wonderfully versatile. In addition to this recipe for Roasted Peppers with Feta, check out a recipe for red pepper and garlic puree on the forum, along with different ideas from forum visitors about the many different ways to use it.

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