Dishes · A classic of Greek

Horiatiki

Also Greek salad, Choriatiki

Village salad: ripe tomato, cucumber, onion, green pepper and olives, with a slab of feta, oregano and plenty of olive oil — and no lettuce.

What makes it horiatiki

  • Tomato, cucumber, red onion, green pepper and olives, in big pieces.
  • Feta in one slab, not crumbled.
  • Olive oil and oregano; vinegar only a little, if at all.

Where it comes from

Horiatiki means village salad. It's a summer dish, only as good as its tomatoes, and it's thought to have become a taverna standard in the twentieth century as visitors arrived. Bread is torn and dipped in the juices left at the bottom.

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Start your own horiatiki
No one here has made horiatiki yet. Start it as v1, and every version after is an experiment the next cook can learn from.

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