Name: Country Tomato Salad (Domatosalata Horiatiki)
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: Sea salt and freshly ground pepper; Olive oil; 6-10 Kalamata olives; 2 salted sardines, rinsed in running water, dried with paper towels, and cut into ⅓-inch pieces; 3 large ripe tomatoes; 2 tablespoons drained capers; 1 medium onion, sliced into thin rings; ½ green bell pepper, cut into rings; 1 hard-cooked egg, quartered (optional); 1 cup diced feta cheese; Oregano; ½ cup chopped purslane (optional)

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Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Foods of Greece

By Aglaia Kremezi

Published 1993

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The salad tourists find in all Greek tavernas by the name horiatiki (country or village salad, known in the United States as Greek salad), is a combination of tomatoes with various other things—from salted sardines to olives—of which only onion slices and feta are a must. From then on, every cook can improvise.

Capers are my addition to Horiatiki. I find that the home-cured capers I get every year from the island of Paros are a perfect addition to sweet, ripe summer to

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