Greek salad

Recipe-Ingrediants

Exquisite, refreshing, tasty, simple – this countryside salad encompasses all of Greece in a single dish. Our ingredients are well-known, varying slightly from place to place and village to village, yet each location shares a common foundation while incorporating local produce.
Accepted even by dieticians as a complete meal, the countryside salad becomes a beloved dish for both adults and children alike. It stands as a quintessential symbol of Greece, alongside souvlaki and fasolada, recognized worldwide as the most photographed "Greek salad."
Rooted in the past, the origins of this salad trace back to times of austerity when Greeks, using a handkerchief tied at its four corners (referred to as a "disaki"), would pack 2 slices of bread, a tomato, a bit of cucumber, 3-5 olives, and a slice of onion. These items accompanied them to work, construction sites, or the countryside. Taverns of that era, modest and frugal, adopted these ingredients and with a touch of olive oil, created this salad. The more fortunate would add cheese (feta).
Every region, every corner of Greece has its own version of the countryside salad, utilizing ingredients in abundance. In Mani, they might add purslane; in Pelion, tsitsiravla; in Crete, barley rusks and a touch of wild chicory; in Macedonia, it might be embellished with eggs; and on the islands, marinated sardines could adorn it.
However we encounter it, in whatever variation, this salad will always remind us of Greece!

Our Ingredients

2-3 ripe tomatoes, chopped

1 cucumber, sliced

1 red onion, sliced

200g Greek feta cheese

1 green bell pepper, sliced

2 tbsp capers

20g purslane

3 tbsp olives

Olive oil

Salt, pepper, oregano