Greek salad
Horiatiki salad with feta cheese as served on Hydra Island, where cucumber is peeled. In other regions, cucumbers are left unpeeled. | |
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Created by | Greeks |
Main ingredients | Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, feta cheese, olives (usually Kalamata olives), salt, oregano, olive oil |
Greek salad or horiatiki salad[a] (Greek: χωριάτικη σαλάτα[b] or θερινή σαλάτα)[c] is a salad in Greek cuisine generally made with pieces of tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, feta cheese, and olives (typically Kalamata olives) and dressed with salt, Greek oregano, lemon juice and olive oil. Common additions include green bell pepper or caper berries (especially on the Dodecanese islands). Greek salad is often imagined as a farmer's breakfast or lunch, as its ingredients resemble those that a Greek farmer might have on hand.[3]
Outside Greece
[edit]Outside Greece, "Greek salad" may be a lettuce salad with Greek-inspired ingredients, even though the original dish is distinguished by the absence of lettuce. Meanwhile, the variant without lettuce may be called horiatiki, 'peasant salad', or 'village salad'.
However in most European countries, including the UK, the dish broadly resembles the original, albeit often with non-Greek substitutions such as another cheese since feta cheese enjoys protected designation of origin status.
In an American-style Greek salad, lettuce, tomatoes, feta (often served in multiple cube-shaped cuttings mixed with the vegetables), and olives are the most standard elements, but cucumbers, peperoncini (pickled hot peppers), bell peppers, onions, radishes, dolmades, and anchovies/sardines are common. Regional variants may include unusual components, e.g. in Detroit, beets, and in the Tampa Bay Area, potato salad. Dressings containing various herbs and seasonings are frequently used in the U.S. These styles of Greek salad are rarely encountered in Greece.
Various other salads have also been called "Greek" in the English language in the last century, including some with no apparent connection to Greek cuisine. A 1925 Australian newspaper described a Greek salad of boiled squash dressed with sour milk;[4] a 1934 American newspaper described a mayonnaise-dressed lettuce salad with shredded cabbage and carrots.[5]
Other salads in Greece and Cyprus
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There are many other salads in Greek cuisine. These include:
- marouli (μαρούλι; a salad with lettuce, onion and dill)
- lahanosalata (λαχανοσαλάτα; a shredded fresh cabbage salad dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, and garlic)
- pantzarosalata (παντζαροσαλάτα; boiled and sliced beetroots, sometimes with beet greens as well, dressed with olive oil and red wine vinegar)
- salata roka (σαλάτα ρόκα; rocket (arugula) dressed with olive oil and red wine vinegar or lemon juice, possibly including anchovies)
- patatosalata (πατατοσαλάτα; a potato salad with olive oil, finely sliced onions, lemon juice or vinegar)
- revithosalata (ρεβιθοσαλάτα; a chickpea salad)
- maintanouri (μαϊντανούρι; a parsley salad usually used as a condiment)
- Cypriot salad,[6] native to the island of Cyprus, consists of finely chopped tomatoes, capers, cucumbers, onions, flat-leaf parsley, feta cheese, dressed with olive oil and lemon or red wine vinegar, and closely resembles the "Greek salad" of Greece.
Some spreads and dips found in the meze of Greek cuisine are also called "salads" in Greek, such as melitzanosalata, taramasalata and tzatziki.
Gallery
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Horiatiki salad as served in the Dodecanese islands
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Greek salad in Thessaloniki
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Greek salad as served in other countries. The main differences are the serving of the feta cheese in multiple cube-shaped cuttings instead of a single rectangular-piece and the more liberal supply of onion.
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Greek-inspired salad as served in Copenhagen, Denmark
See also
[edit]- Afghan salad, a similar salad from Afghanistan
- Arab salad, a similar salad from the Arab world
- Çoban salatası, a similar salad from Turkey
- Israeli salad, a similar salad from Israel
- Kachumbari, a similar salad from East Africa
- Kachumber, a similar salad from India
- Pico de gallo, a similar salsa from Mexico
- Serbian salad, a similar salad from Serbia
- Shirazi salad, a similar salad from Iran
- Shopska salad, a similar salad from the Balkans
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pronounced /ˌhɔːriəˈtiːki/ HOR-ee-ə-TEE-kee in British English,[1] /ˌhɔːriˈɑːtɪki/ HOR-ee-AH-tik-ee in American English.[2]
- ^ Romanized chōriátiki saláta, pronounced [xorˈʝatici saˈlata], lit. 'village salad' or 'rustic salad'.
- ^ Romanized theriní saláta, pronounced [θeriˈni saˈlata], lit. 'summer salad'.
References
[edit]- ^ "horiatiki". CollinsDictionary.com. HarperCollins. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ "horiatiki". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ Zhang, Jenny. "A Modern Tradition: Greek Salad". Organically Blissful. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
- ^ "The Age – Google News Archive Search". google.com. January 13, 1925. p. 7.[permanent dead link]
- ^ The Daily Times (Rochester and Beaver, Pennsylvania), March 13, 1934
- ^ "Cypriot Salad".