Greek Salad (Horiatiki)

Name: Greek Salad (Horiatiki)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 unit tomato (ripe, cut into thick wedges); 1 unit cucumber (peeled in stripes, thick half-moons); 1 unit green bell pepper (seeded, sliced into rings); 1 unit red onion (sliced paper-thin); 4 oz feta (single slab, not crumbled); ⅓ cup kalamata olives (whole, with pits); 3 tbsp olive oil (extra virgin, the good bottle); 1 tsp oregano (dried, crumbled between the palms); ½ tsp salt; ¼ tsp black pepper (coarse)

Vegetables & Salads · European

10 ingredients · 20 minutes · 2 servings

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412kcal10.5g protein36.2g fat14.7g carbs~$2.34/ serving*

Contains dairy · only in an optional ingredient: gluten

Restrictions

ContainsdairyIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Only if you add itgluten (bread)Leave that ingredient out and the dish does not have it.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

2 unit	tomato (ripe, cut into thick wedges)
1 unit	cucumber (peeled in stripes, thick half-moons)
1 unit	green bell pepper (seeded, sliced into rings)
1 unit	red onion (sliced paper-thin)
4 oz	feta (single slab, not crumbled)
⅓ cup	kalamata olives (whole, with pits)
3 tbsp	olive oil (extra virgin, the good bottle)
1 tsp	oregano (dried, crumbled between the palms)
½ tsp	salt
¼ tsp	black pepper (coarse)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

1 tsp	red wine vinegar
1 tbsp	capers (rinsed)
2 slice	bread (crusty, for the juices)

Steps

Season10 min
room temperature, in the serving bowl
- tomato
- red wine vinegar
tomato wedges + salt, tossed and left to stand — the salt pulls juice out of the tomato and that juice, not vinegar, is half the dressing; cold tomatoes release almost nothing, which is why refrigerated versions taste dry
Slice5 min
- cucumber
- red onion
cucumber + green pepper + red onion; rinse the onion slices under cold water and pat dry to wash off the sulfur compounds that otherwise dominate every other bite
Mix1 min
gentle, by hand
- kalamata olives
salted tomatoes and their juice + cucumber + pepper + onion + olives, turned once only — stirring hard bruises the cucumber and turns the pooled juice cloudy and foamy
Top2 min
undressed cheese last
+ feta slab laid whole across the surface + oregano crumbled over the cheese + black pepper; the slab stays a distinct salty bite instead of dissolving into the juice the way crumbles do
Top1 min
just before serving
+ olive oil poured over the feta so it runs down into the tomato juice and loosely emulsifies in the bowl; add vinegar here if at all, because acid added early collapses the cucumber and drains the tomato flat