Greek Salad or Horiatiki

Name: Greek Salad or Horiatiki
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 4 large ripe tomatoes; half a cucumber; 1 sweet onion; a handful of black olives; 150 g (5 oz) feta cheese; olive oil; salt and pepper; salt and pepper; lemon juice or vinegar; lemon juice or vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Paupers Cookbook

By Jocasta Innes

Published 2014

About

Eaten with crusty bread, or pitta warmed in the oven, nothing is more quick, appetizing or refreshing on a hot summer day. I love crude food, and this is definitely it. Ingredients and their proportions can be varied at will, according to what is available, but feta cheese, crumbled, is a must, as are black olives.

Ingredients

4 large ripe tomatoes
half a cucumber
1 sweet onion
a handful

Europe
Greece
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Summer

Method

Slice tomatoes vertically into segments. Peel the cucumber stripily, and chunk. Slice peeled onion into the thinnest rounds. Combine with black olives in a plain white dish. Crumble feta cheese into the dish and dress with a fruity olive oil, salt, pepper and the merest squeeze of lemon juice or splash of vinegar.

This is the essential horiatiki, redolent of vine-shaded meals on broilin