Food & Drink | The Greek Traveler :: By Rohini Khanna ...

Greek salad is one of the easiest salad recipes out there. This delicious summer salad contains chunks of tomatoes, green bell peppers, red onion, feta cheese (sliced or cubed), and mouth watering kalamata olives. A Greek salad is seasoned with salt, pepper and dried oregano.

Since this is a Mediterranean based salad dish, you can add a generous helping of olive oil to the salad. This is known as ?dressing? the salad. It helps to intensify the flavor of the salad as well as adding to the texture.

Along with these core ingredients, variations of traditional Greek salad include vinegar, lemon juice, chopped parsley and pickled buds, leaves or berries of caper.

Greek salad is such a straightforward salad recipe that it has found its way in other parts of the world like North America, Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. In fact, you can purchase a ready made Greek salad from your local super market now- a-days. These, however differ greatly from the typical Greek salad or what a native of Greece would call a ?horiatiki salata? (country salad).

The ?Greek salad? found in other countries is more like a lettuce salad with Greek inspired ingredients such as feta cheese and olives. The American-style Greek salad includes cucumbers, pepperocini, pickled hot peppers, dolmades, anchovies, radishes and beets.

You can serve your Greek salad as part of a meze platter, along with psomi (Greek bread) and different kinds of Greek dip and spread. Taramosalata and melitzanosalata are two types of Greek dip that go well with Greek salad.

So, the next time you want to toss up something exotic, make a Greek salad. It will definitely tickle your taste buds.

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Article Added on Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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