The most popular fresh and rich salad in Greece is the Rural salad

Probably more often you have met her with the name Greek salad, it is a direct testimony to the culinary heritage and the connection with the delicious rural cuisine of the Byzantines from where the name comes. ( Χωριάτικη σαλάτα (Horiatiki Salad) – from horio (χωριό) – a small town, a village)

I introduce you my recipe for this delicious and fresh salad with a Mediterranean spirit.

Greek salad ingredients:

• 2-3 pieces of delicious red or pink tomatoes
• 1 small cucumber
• 1 green pepper
• 1 red onion
• 1 tbsp. capers
• 1 handful of kalamata olives
• dry or fresh oregano
• 150-200 grams of feta cheese
• pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp. of white wine vinegar
• 2-3 tbsp. extra virgin Greek olive oil

Preparation:

Prepare the salad by cutting tomatoes into the half-moon pieces, peel and cut the cucumber, slice the green pepper and the red onion. Add olives and capers. Salt and season with white wine vinegar. Put the cheese on a tile shape, cut into cubes or crushed into large pieces. Sprinkle with oregano and pour with aromatic olive oil.