Traditional Greek Salad - Horiatiki

There is a lot of confusion around the original Greek salad, it comes in so many different versions, I even have a video recipe on the website. But after the visit in Greece from last year, I understood this simple Greek salad and how did the Greeks manage to make it so popular. The whole secret lies in the quality of the ingredients! The salad you can prepare at home using season tomatoes and following the directions below will be more Greek than any other salad served in restaurants, even in Greek restaurants. 

Good quality olive oil, flavourful season vegetables, delicious feta cheese, olives - a must, and oregano - this is the perfect formula. There is no need for inventing any other additional fancy dressing. The juicy garden tomatoes combined with the olive oil will do the job. "Horiatiki" translates as "peasant" (I was told by someone who works at the Greek restaurant next to us). So, the simpler, the better, the vegetables don't even have to be perfectly sliced and this is the charm of it.