Greek Salad
By: Sheri Wetherell
Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 1:33am

Ingredients




5 large ripe tomatoes
1 large red onion, sliced thinly
1 large cucumber
1/4 pound greek feta
1 dozen Kalamata olives
high-quality extra virgin olive oil

Preparation

1  Slice the vegetables into bite-size wedges
 2 Toss in a bowl with olive oil  3 Place feta on top of the salad or break up into crumbles

About


Traditional "Greek salad", known as horiatiki (country or village salad) in Greece, is a simple salad of mainly tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, olives and feta that is often eaten in the summer months. Sometime green pepper, anchovies, oregano and/or lettuce is also added.