COPPERHoriatiki recipe
The Greek village salad: tomato, cucumber and onion under a whole slab of feta, without lettuce.
Ingredients
- 500 g ripe tomatoes
- 1 cucumber
- 1 green pepper
- 1 red onion
- 200 g feta
- 80 g kalamata olives
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 5 tbsp olive oil
How to make Horiatiki
- Cut the 500 g of tomatoes into rough wedges.
- Cut the cucumber into thick half-moons. No neat dice.
- Slice the green pepper into rings and the red onion thinly.
- Put everything in a wide bowl with the 80 g of olives.
- Lay the 200 g slab of feta whole on top, never crumbled.
- Sprinkle with the 1 tsp of oregano and pour over the 5 tbsp of olive oil. Serve with bread to mop up the juices.
What is Horiatiki?
Horiatiki is a traditional dish from Greece, and takes about 15 minutes from start to finish. It is built around ripe tomatoes, feta and kalamata olives. The recipe below uses 8 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Horiatiki take?
At 15 minutes it is quicker than 100% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 14 dishes built on ripe tomatoes. The method runs to 6 steps.
Any tips for making Horiatiki?
Leave the feta as one whole slab on top and add the oregano and olive oil only at the end.
How Horiatiki compares
At 15 minutes, Horiatiki is among the 10 quickest of the 586 dishes Copper documents. Hard to find elsewhere: feta (1) and kalamata olives (1).
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