Traditional Greek Salad Recipe a.k.a. the Horiatiki Salata

This classic Greek Salad Recipe is loaded up with fresh tomatoes, vegetables, feta cheese, and herbs in a light red wine vinaigrette.

A Greek salad, which is better known as a Horiatiki Salata in Greece, is a classic vegetable salad that is mixed with herbs, cheese, and a light vinaigrette. The tradition of eating a salad before the main meal was actually founded in ancient Greece. They believed that consuming fresh raw vegetables before a big main meal, that would aid in digestion.

Ingredients for this recipe:

• 5 cored vine ripe tomatoes cut into bitesize pieces
• 1 cucumber sliced into half-moons
• 1 seeded and julienne green bell pepper
• ½ peeled and julienne red onion
• ¼ cup capers
• 10 to 12 pitted kalamata olives
• 10 to 12 pitted green Greek olives
• 8-ounce block of feta cheese broken into bitesize pieces
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 ½ teaspoons dry oregano
• salt and pepper to taste

Serves 8

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 0

Procedures:

1. Rinse and prepare all of the vegetables accordingly.
2. Add the tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and red onions to a large platter or bowl.
3. Evenly place on the capers, olives, and feta cheese.
4. Drizzle on the olive oil and red wine vinegar.
5. Sprinkle the oregano, salt, and pepper over top, and serve.

Chef Notes:

Make-Ahead: Keep the dressing separate, but you can make this up to 1 day ahead of time. I would also advise keeping the feta cheese separate until ready to serve. Don’t season it either until ready to serve.

How To Store: If you can keep the seasoning and vinaigrette separate and cover and keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Use pitted olives to make it easier to consume.

It is more classic to use a block of feta cheese rather than crumbles.

Any tomato will work for this recipe.

[Kma]

Wow, thank you.
I am half greek from Germany and I really enjoyed this one. Evcharistó

[rev.redhand]

Beautiful salad Chef. GOD bless you all ladies and gentlemen.

[amandashineyourlight]

I worked in a Greek restaurant where they had late friday night parties and threw plates in the floor. So they were classic Greeks. The chef George, from Mykonos, used iceberg lettuce, calamata olives, red onion, peeled cucumber, some tomato wedges, fetta and vinaigrette MINUS garlic and bell pepper. It was good stuff and I have loved Greek cuisine and their music ever since.

[kato]

I was hooked on Greek salad for a good long while.

[traciemazoch]

I love how simple and delicious the recipes are. Thank you.

[thisisnotdimitri]

I always make this style salad without vinegar and just use a really good extra virgin olive oil. A greek salad is anything that’s fresh from the garden

[Peachy-kh]

Thank you chef. I appreciate you showing your techniques.

[Isolatedbloom]

This dish looks absolutely delicious! I'm actually craving🤤🤤🤤 it now, but I'll need to get the ingredients before I can attempt to make it!

Thank you for sharing!!! ❤️

[lillianvazquez]

Amazing I was nervous 😓 but omg delicious 😋 Thank you 😁 also as a single mom I don't have fancy nothing so I'm glad you mentioned that it doesn't matter 😊
We loved this and all your great recipes 😀❤😊
Makes us feel super fancy

[philliplewis]

Thank you, I’ve been wanting to make this Salad for years

[roxanneswanson]

I love this salad and make it often. I don't care for a sharp red onion, though, so I soak my sliced onion in ice water for at least 10 minutes before adding it to the salad. It helps to get that going first thing while I attend to the other ingredients. Yum! Thanks for sharing your recipe!

[cookingsimplydelicious]

What a perfect Greek salad recipe you made, very delicious and healthy, I love it! Thank you for sharing your recipe.

[truthfinder]

That's my favorite salad. I make this salad at least 3 days a week and have for years. I season the tomatoes with basil S&P, the cucumber with dill S&P separately then add them to the remainder. It's the best of my garden.

[nuggettflavor]

This is one of my fav salads. Finally an authentic Greek salad without lettuce.

[annenilsen]

I am always amazed by your slicing skills and I’ve finally saved up to get some professional knives. Can you recommend some? What chef’s knife do you use most?

[erikavujasinovic]

You should try fresh minced mint on this salad instead of Oregano. Mint is the bomb with tomatoes and feta

[marknichols]

Great recipes!
Do you have a flavor alternative for “pepper” when you do the seasoning with “salt and pepper”? - my wife is allergic to peppers (cyan, black, etc.)
Wonderfully inspiring recipes and coaching.

[ruthannjohnson]

the corner restaurant where I go to for coffee they have really good Greek salad but I can't eat the lettuce in their Greek dressing is up pink color and I liked it at it because it's on the sweet side

[amandashineyourlight]

FYI My mum taught me French vinaigrette and a little sugar was essential. It balances the flavours.

[χριστινασαραφοπουλου]

Not the classic Greek salad but nice twist!