Horiatiki, or traditional Greek salad,
is served most often from early spring to the early part of fall. It features the season’s quality juicy tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions,green bell peppers and creamy feta cheese. The seasoning is simple: a pinch of salt and dried oregano. And the dressing is a generous splash of exquisite Greek extra virgin organic olive oil.
Horiatiki salad contains all the ingredients to make it a full and wholesome meal. A double serving (holding back on the oil and cheese) has everything the body needs: lots of vitamins and fibers from the vegetables (tomato, pepper, cucumber and onion), carbohydrates and more fibers from the accompanying bread often used for dunking, good fatty acids from the olive oil, proteins and animal fat from the feta and, last but not least, electrolytes like such as sodium (from the salt) and minerals such as calcium (from the tomato).
The Greek salad
horiatiki (the name in Greek means village salad) is a salad as refreshing and generous as the summer sun. It is a compilation of summer vegetables, roughly chopped with a drizzling of good extra virgin olive oil, a handful of dark Kalamata olives and a tiny pinch of oregano. The Greek salad is one of the iconic dishes in Greece, a recipe that best identifies the country. If you think about it, its composition in fact best represents the biodiversity of the Greek territory. Vegetables that are fragrant, tasty and above all extremely colorful in summer. Feta cheese, which is one of the most popular products in all of Greece, as well as being one of the best known Greek products in the world. The condiments used, such as sea salt produced directly in the Aegean. Dried oregano, which during the Greek summers perfumes the villages of the whole Peloponnese but not only. And finally the king of the Greek table, that is extra virgin olive oil. Equip yourself with oil made with koroneiki olives as it is certainly the best to dress your Greek salad. It is a delicate oil but at the same time with an intense herbaceous scent. An olive oil able to best assemble all the ingredients of your Greek salad, highlighting its taste and aroma.