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How To Make Greek Salad

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How To Make Greek Salad
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Typical Greek Salad Recipe with feta cheese and black olives: an appetising lunch! A Greek classic. Try our Greek Salad recipe. Enlarge Typical Greek Salad Recipe with feta cheese and black olives: an appetising lunch! A Greek classic. Try our Greek Salad recipe.
Serves:
2
Preparation Time:
15 minutes
Cooking Time:
15 minutes
Total Time:
30 minutes

Step 1: You will need

  • 4 ripe tomatoes
  • 1 red onion
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 green pepper
  • 1 red pepper
  • 250 g feta cheese
  • 100 g black olives
  • ½ lemon
  • 80 ml olive oil
  • 1 tbsp oregano
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 cutting board
  • 1 knife
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 spoon
  • 1 fork
  • 1 peeler

Step 2: Cut the tomatoes

Firstly, cut the top of the tomato and discard. And continue to chop it roughly into rustic chunky slices. Then, discarding the bottom, roughly cube. As Greek salad is a rustic salad everything is cut big and chunky.

Take another tomato and repeat until all the tomatoes are cut into chunky cubes. Then place in a large bowl.

Step 3: Cut the onion

Slice the onion in half then cut into thin slices and transfer them into the bowl with the tomatoes.

Step 4: Cut the cucumber

Using your vegetable peeler, peel off the skin from top to the bottom, creating a striped pattern by peeling then missing the next strip. Cut off both ends then slice them in half and cut them across into cubes.

And add them to the bowl of tomatoes and onion.

Step 5: Cut the peppers

Take a red pepper and using your large knife cut into several large slices discarding the centre with the seeds. Cut the slices in half and then into chunky cubes. Take a green pepper and repeat exactly the same process.

When they are all cubed transfer them into the bowl with the rest of the ingredients.

Step 6: Assemble the salad

Add the oregano to the bowl then the black olives and the salt and pepper. Then taking a fork, pierce a lemon and squeeze the juice all over the salad discarding any pips then pour over the olive oil and using your spoon combine it all together.

Step 7: Serve

Just before serving heap the feta cheese on top of your salad and serve.
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  1. jmcant

    This was really helpful as I'm making a Greek salad for my husband's lunch tomorrow and wanted to get it as authentic as possible!

  2. Shawn_Ferrie

    Obviously there are variations on the ingredients in a Greek Salad. I think I like them all....!

  3. kysee

    Wow! Yummy salad, is that an old style of cooking way of salad?

  4. VOLIOTIS

    I just discovered your site and I am love it. The Greek salad recipy ("Choriatiki Sallata-Greek "vilage sallad") is good , even if not exactly accurate. Nothing wrong with Red pepers (although not needed). As for cucumber, it better be fully peelled and cut in round slices. No pepper, no lemon BUT vinegar instead (its a must!) Also add capers, they realy blend well with the other tastes. Tomato is usually cut in wedged slices (if you peel them first they taste much better) but cubes are OK. Before you add the onions (after you salt the sallad), salt them and squeeze them with your hands so they lose that "raw" feeling. Lately, it's fashinable to add broken pieces of Creetan hard toat "Takos"). Regarding olive oil, the sallad should "swim" in it! Use it liberally). You'll surprised of the difference! Kali Orexi (Bon Appetite) Panos

  5. theoo

    GREEK COOKING

  6. StaxGreece

    We DON'T use (lemon, red pepper, pepper) in Greek Salad! Also as well Marianna said we completely peel the cucumber(we don't add it striped as shown in the video) Plz guys fix your video! Greeks do it better! :P

  7. chefvn

    Leave a comment here....

  8. melady

    mariannadayio , also virgin olive oil from Crete !!!!!!!!!! hehehe...

  9. mariannadayio

    In original greek salad, lemon, black pepper and red pepper are not used. Also when all vegetables are cut and placed to the bowl we add salt(perferably thick salt) and then fetta cheese. Afterwards add extra virgin olive oil (from Kalamata) and lastly oregano. There is no need to mix all together. Plus the cucamber is completely peeled off and not with stripes as shown. PATRAS-GREECE

  10. MrsRebecca

    Great recipe! but i wish they had a Mousaka recipe too