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Greek Salad Recipe

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Traditional Greek Salad with Oregano Salad Dressing Vinaigrette! Packed with Feta, Tomatoes, Peppers and Onions, so easy and delicious!
Greek Salad Dressing ingredients

How to Make Greek Salad Dressing

Everyone loves a traditional Greek Salad recipe (known as Horiatiki in Greece), a staple of Greek cuisine! It’s so easy to make! It’s an essential summer salad for a backyard Bbq or a Potluck meal.

This salad is typically made with tomatoes, cucumbers, red peppers, olives and red onion. Traditionally the red onions are cut into rings, but I tend to chop all the ingredients the same size including the onion, so it’s easier to eat. Please don’t buy the black olives sold in cans. They are tasteless and are of poor quality.

Which Olives for Greek Salad?

The tastiest olives for this salad are dark purple Kalamata Olives, either sold fresh in the deli or in glass jars. Kalamata Olives are also sold as Kalamon Olives, only if they are not grown in the Kalamata region of Greece. It’s the same meaty flavorful olive, just with a different name because of where it was planted. I recommend buying the pitted olives. Nobody likes to bite into a Greek Salad and break a tooth on an olive!

Don’t buy your Greek Salad Dressing, it’s so easy to make, ready to pour over your salad. Make the dressing before the salad to allow the flavors meld together. When making salad dressings, sometimes I use an old glass jar, put the lid on and shake the flavors together to emulsify. Remember to give it a shake again before pouring over the salad.

Traditional Greek Salad should never be served with lettuce as a way to fill your salad bowl. It’s just a stingy and cheaper way of making this salad, and is sadly becoming more popular with restaurants. It’s much tastier and healthier with only vegetables, as it was intended.

An easy summertime traditional Greek Salad recipe with Easy Dressing, perfect for any time of year. Bon Appetit! Приятного аппетита!

Traditional Greek Salad with Oregano Salad Dressing Vinaigrette! Packed with Feta, Tomatoes, Peppers and Onions, so easy and delicious!
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Greek Salad Recipe with Easy Dressing

Traditional Greek Salad with Oregano Salad Dressing Vinaigrette! Packed with Feta, Tomatoes, Peppers and Onions, so easy and delicious!

Course Appetizer, Salad, Sides
Cuisine Greek
Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Author PetersFoodAdventures

Ingredients

Garden Fresh Greek Salad

  • 4 Medium Tomatoes chopped
  • Long English Cucumber chopped
  • 1 small Red Pepper chopped
  • 1 small Green Pepper chopped
  • ½ cup Kalamata Olives
  • ½ Red Onion chopped
  • 200 g Greek Feta cubed

Easy Greek Salad Dressing

  • ½ cup Olive Oil
  • ¼ cup Red Wine Vinegar
  • 1-½ teaspoons Dried or Fresh Oregano
  • 1 teaspoon Salt

Instructions

  1. Whisk the Olive Oil, Red Wine Vinegar, Salt and Oregano and set aside for the flavours to meld together. Set aside.
  2. Place the Tomatoes, Cucumber, Red Pepper, Onions, in a large bowl. Mix together. Top with feta. Drizzle with the Greek Salad Dressing and serve

Recipe Notes

Can add 2 tablespoons of Lemon Juice for extra zing in the Greek Salad Dressing!

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  1. This is what is needed this morning for breakfast. I know you don’t normally eat salad for breakfast, but where I am in South Africa it is 5.30am and already the temp is high and humid as all hell.

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