How to Make Traditional Greek Salad

How to Make a Traditional Greek Salad

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Greek salad is one of the most famous salads out there. Its classical ingredients are fresh tomato, cucumbers, capers, onion, feta cheese, many olives and at least two or three spoonfuls of olive oil. In some areas, it is served on top of a scoop of Greek potato salad. Don't forget a side helping of fresh bread!

Ingredients

• 150 grams feta cheese, cubed
• 4 tomatoes cut in wedges
• 1 cucumber unpeeled, cut in rounds
• 1 large onion, cut in fine wedges
• 2 teaspoons capers
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 15 to 20 black olives
• Salt to taste
• 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil

Steps

1. Take a large open serving bowl, mix tomatoes, cucumber, onion (red onion normally), feta cheese as prepared.
2. Add olives and capers (optional).
3. Sprinkle with oregano.
4. Drizzle plenty of olive oil and mix it in with the salad, so as not to make it too dry!

Tips

• Keep ingredients cold until ready for use.
• Ground black pepper can be used in place of oregano.
• There are a few alternative Greek salads, the Countryhouse for example, where beetroot might also be included. But this is for the simple, best known traditional Greek salad.
• Should you accidentally add too much olive oil, don't fret. This can be soaked up with some loaf bread, along with the tomato juice. Which is scrumptious, so enjoy!
• Feta cheese is quite salty, so you may not need to add any salt at all.
• It is important to toss the salad well. If the salad is not tossed enough, the olive oil tends to gather and the bottom, resulting in an unevenly-flavored salad.

Warnings

• Take care when grating or chopping; it's easier to be proud of your creation if you don't end up in the hospital because of it.
• Exercise good food hygiene.

Things You'll Need

• Clean chopping board
• Mixing bowl/serving bowl
• A knife(sharp)

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