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Foodie Monday: Horiatiki Salata or Greek Salad
Dictionary.com defines the word Horiatiki as a traditional Greek salad consisting of tomatoes, cucumber, onion, olives, and feta cheese. And, so it is! I had the pleasure of eating my first Horiatiki Salad on Saturday night, not in Greece (unfortunately) but in a little Greek restaurant nestled on the Main Street of La Crosse, Wisconsin!
The salad has a combination of tomatoes, cucumbers, kalamata olives (pre-pitted), red onion slices, and a block of feta cheese set on top of it all! The salad I ate Saturday night had an added variation of roasted red peppers. It was dressed with a light coating of olive oil, sea salt, and pepper. So simple, so light, so fresh, and so delicious!
My husband and I noticed, now that we’ve been to this Greek restaurant twice, that we have not had ANY lettuce in our salads. This is surely different from the Green restaurants we ate at when we lived in Buffalo, New York. There is a large Greek contingent in Buffalo and we regularly ate at several of their restaurants. Kosta’s on Hertel Avenue and then their expansion to Williamsville was always a treat. Our favorite there was Chicken Souvlaki either in a sandwich or as a salad. Both the salad and the sandwich had shredded lettuce in the recipe along with a large dose of feta cheese.
