Learn how to make an authentic Greek salad in minutes. We tell you everything there is to know about Greek salad (called Horiatiki, or Horiatiki Salata, in Greece).
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Greek salad is the most well know Greek dish. Even so, there are many misconceptions about it: which ingredients go in a Greek salad? Is Greek salad healthy? Which olives should be used in a Greek salad? What’s a Greek salad?
In this video we explain everything you should know about this dish. How it is used in Greece, what ingredients should and should not be used and we show you how to make a perfect, traditional, authentic, homemade Greek salad step by step. It’s yet another Greek food you can make at home!
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Thank you for your video ,it made me to remember how good it was !! One question !!? In Greece with the Greek salad on the bread Greeks make YOGURT !!! Very delicious with the cucumbers !! Can you give the recipe ?? Thank you 😊
This is the real deal, motherfuckers.
Greetings from Romania, really nice explaining done in the video. Came to this video because when I was in Greece I ate at least once a day a Greek salad that every time it was delicious. In Romania if you order it from a restaurant it’s crap, cheese is wrong, too little tomatoes, no green pepper…
At least we are lucky that we are close to Greece and we can buy all the original ingredients, but you have to DIY :))
I live in the south east of Italy, really close to Greece, and that crunchy plant that you’re talking about grows everywhere here…I remember my grandma used to make a delicious salad out of it, but I didn’t know it was used in the Greek salad as well! That’s amazing I never thought of putting it in my Horiatiki! Thank you so much I’ll try it eheheh by the way, in my dialect it’s called “Brucacchia” at least, my grandma calls it that way
Restaurant near me puts anchovies in their "greek" salad and it is delicious. Never liked them but it was quite tasty with the salad.
This video had me laughing ! Best video on how to make a Greek salad so far after watching 10 different ones . And yes they all did what you said don’t do 😂😂😂 When you talked about the wrong ingredients! 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 bastardising your culture! That’s so common they do it to Jamaican cuisine too 😂😂😂 I know you’re pain!.
Funny you said capers, as you were listing the ingredients I was thinking ‘mine’s not gonna be traditional because I’m going to throw in some capers’. I just thought it would go perfectly with the other ingredients. I’m having tuna and Greek salad for dinner tonight. I have awesome tomatoes because I’m in Perth Western Australia and it’s mid summer. Yum it’s 2:30 and I want dinner NOW. THANK YOU
Interesting about the cheese. Have had stuff that looks like feta but hated it. I always only buy Greek feta cheese because it tastes better, now I know why. Thanks for the explanation
I loved Greek salad 🤗thank for excallend video
Thank you for talking – and sharing – sense!
Best explanation ive seen yet.
LOVE your insights… And rendition 🥲
You are so funny. I love this. Thank you for sharing.
Great job, pretty informative in a nice, funny way. I love it 🥰
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Thank you so much for this informative, funny, and entertaining video! I couldn't help but be reminded of the best Greek salad I've ever had. Pretty sure it was still somewhat Americanized, but they left all the ingredients chunky and the olives unpitted. Now it makes perfect sense why… I hope I can find another as good, or go to Greece someday. In the meantime, though, I've been inspired to try your lovely recipie. 😊
I went to Greece back in March and fell in love with this salad. I made it today, and it was absolutely delicious! I used the olive oil and dried oregano that I bought there. Now, I just need to figure out where to reliably get some more Greek olive oil, because I am running out of what I bought in Greece! We have nothing close to it in my part of the USA. Most places I have checked have been “currently unavailable” to me.
You are so funny!
You are so funny
Where should I start? OK in my house we don't use parsley but it is always a fresh taste wherever you put it. So no real objections here. Do you know that it's the standard in Cypriot houses capers and leaves in their Greek salad? It was a very nice surprise for me that fact. I am also seriously pissed of when I visit a Greek restaurant and they serve me a Greek Salad in which the tomatoes are not peeled of? Nowadays it's a key criterion to which restaurant or taverna I will have lunch or dinne. I ask before I even sit if they peel the tomatoes in the Greek – Horiatiki they make. If they don't I leave. I prefer to starve than to eat one with the unpeeled tomatoes. You find it ridiculous ? It's your prerogative. I lost my mother's sister from consuming unpeeled tomatoes and other fruits. She should have washed them extremely well to be sure that later in her life wouldn't develop leukaemia in her blood. And trust me she suffered seriously. Dont take this matter light and wash all your products very well especially tomatoes and cucumbers and of course much more apples and pears which many eat them with the skin. Pears especially were produced after spraying them with 22 different pesticides. I didn't believe it when I learned but I found out it's a fact.
The last years I add a little bit of balsamic vinegar made of either fig or by pomegranate. They are not actually not at all bitter and combined with the oil they make that juice you describe even tastier. And very healthy because all the nutritionists agree that a little bit of vinegar help the body to dissolve all the fats we consume if eaten in daily basis.
As you said Stam it's a disgrace to put other white cheese in the salad apart from Feta and I prefer the one from the island of Kephallonia (my mom's birthplace) which I find weird why they name it white barrel cheese not FETA. When it's so buttery and with a unique taste like having pepper in it. I really hate political issues from region to other region.
And now onto the Greek virgin olive oil.
It is absolutely imperative to add it. And not any other kind of oil. And it's imperative to add it because modern science has proven that without olive oil you DONT ABSORB all the vitamins and all the fibres the ingredients contain. Ask any nutritionist with serious degree what you get to one with.
I am from Mexico, my family has never tried before a Greek salad! I will prepare it for Christmas! it was a surprise to see the traslation to spanish of Glistrita, it is easy to find here! Let's see how it goes,,, I know you never mentioned, but , is garlic good with it?
I was planing to put it in my menu. And watching lots of videos about it. Thank you for the video. If you are near Walthamstow, London then please come to visit me in Forest Tandoori, E17 3HX.
I want you to me my tester.
But I will use green pitted olive.
You are… really, really good. You and your greek salad!!!!
I had no idea Greeks ate purslane! I’m Taiwanese and my grandma cooked it to supplement omega fats in our diet btw , is red wine vinegar ok?
But as soon as you put tomato in it, it became a Mexican Greek salad. Tomatoes aren't from Greece.
Best informative video I’ve seen on Greek salad. I wish I had been born in Greece, love love love the mainland and the islands. The Greek salad was always a favourite with almost every meal.
I make mine the same as you, though the tomatoes are not great here in the uk. But it is helped by the fact that I have a good supply of Greek oregano, the stuff from the mountains. Thank you for your video and your love of a wonderful dish.
Greece…tomatoes in AUGUST………….a MIRACLE!!!!
When adding your seasoning use a combination of dried greek thyme greek oregano, pyrslane, mint and parsley
I love your video! I operate a restaurant on a military base where they train pilots, so I work at serving healthy food. I have been adding mediterranean dishes to our menu and appreciate your input!
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