Horiatiki Salata

Elmotoo's Note:

A basic greek salad recipe. Notice the lack of lettuce!

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 4 -5 large ripe tomatoes
• 1 large red onion
• 1 cucumber
• 1 green bell pepper
• ¼ lb feta cheese , crumbled or sliced
• dried oregano
• sea salt
• top quality extra virgin olive oil
• 1 dozen olive (Kalamata, green Cretan olives, etc.)
• pickled hot pepperoncini pepper (garnish)
• 1 tablespoon water

Directions:

1. Wash and dry the tomatoes, cucumber, and green pepper. Clean off the outer skin from the onion, wash, and dry.
2. Cut the tomatoes into bite-sized irregularly shaped chunks, removing the core. Slice the cucumber into 1/4-inch slices, cutting slices in half (whether or not you peel the cucumber is a personal choice).
3. Slice the pepper into rings, removing the stem and seeds. Slice the onion into thin rings.
4. Combine the tomatoes, cucumbers, green pepper and onion in a large salad bowl. Sprinkle with oregano and salt, pour olive oil over the salad, and toss.
5. Just before serving, place the feta on top of the salad, either as a slice or crumbled and toss in some olives. Sprinkle the cheese with oregano (and pepper if desired), mix the oil and water and drizzle over the top, and serve, garnished with hot peppers.

Reviews

[Chef Buggsy Mate]

Made this to go along with our roast for dinner tonight. I did add the veggies to a little bit of a mixed greens lettuce blend in order to sneak it by as a salad. The only other change I made was I subbed fresh squeezed lemon juice for the water. I will definitely make this again. Made and reviewed for the 38th AUS/NZ Recipe Swap.

[JustJanS]

A colourful and tasty salad. I like the fact we always have the ingredients for this sort of salad on hand. I had big fruity green olives, but think I would have preferred kalmata in this,

[Cilantro in Canada]

This is awesome. I chose not to add any oil, salt or water. I have made this twice and both times my husband devoured it. I ran out of cucumber and subbed some snow peas and it was still good. This is easy to make and filled with flavour. Thanks for the recipe.