Recipe: Tasty Authentic Greek Salad 🥗 🇬🇷

Authentic Greek Salad 🥗 🇬🇷. Traditional Greek salad is typically served with a splash of citrus and extra virgin olive oil. I have also learned to keep bottles of extra virgin olive oil and vinegar (or lemon halves) on the table in case anyone needed an extra splash, a trick I learned while visiting the Greek islands. How can you say this is a traditional Greek salad with no green peppers and no Greek olives not to mention no lettuce in a traditional Greek salad.

This traditional Greek Salad recipe is wonderfully uncomplicated, easy to make, and so refreshing. Feel free to toss it everything together in a mixing bowl, or just serve the base ingredients with bottles of olive oil and red wine vinegar on the side for people to dress their individual portions. Try drizzling it on traditional Greek salad, Greek couscous salad or any of these other Greek salad recipes. You can cook Authentic Greek Salad 🥗 🇬🇷 using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Authentic Greek Salad 🥗 🇬🇷

1. Prepare 2 of large, ripe tomatoes.
2. It's 1 of large cucumber.
3. Prepare 1 of green peppers.
4. You need 150 g of feta cheese.
5. It's 1 of red onion.
6. Prepare of Some Oregano, Salt, Vinegar.
7. Prepare of Some Extra virgin olive oil.
8. You need of Optionally: Olives, Capers.

You can also use it to make Greek pita spread or feta steak tacos. Just got back from a trip to Greece! I thought I knew what Greek salad was until I ordered one and got this concoction devoid of lettuce. haha. But it turned out to be my absolute favorite dish there and I ordered it many times.

Authentic Greek Salad 🥗 🇬🇷 instructions

1. Prepare a large salad bowl. Wash all the veggies well..
2. Slice the tomato over the bowl- you want the juice inside the bowl so the leftover juice you can mop it up with your pita bread..
3. Peel and slice the cucumber, chop the peppers in slices, as well as the onion. Add everything into the bowl..
4. Mix gently. Crumble feta and add over the salad. Drizzle with a bit of vinegar a generous dose of olive oil. Sprinkle with oregano and salt, adding capers and olives if using. Mix all well and enjoy! Perfect with Tzatziki and greek pita bread for summer day ☀️.

The key is to have the very freshest ingredients, including the feta. The one and only famous authentic Greek Salad also known as Village Salad and in Greek: Horiatiki. This is the real thing, do not accept imitations of so-called "Greek Salads". Straight from Greece this salad is full of flavor, nutrients and the goodness of summer produce! In this classic Greek salad recipe, tomatoes, red onion and cucumbers are dressed with olive oil and finished with crumbled feta cheese.

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