This "country salad" is called "summer salad" in the eyes of Greeks. The reason is that all the ingredients: onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and olives are summer ingredients, and together with olive oil, they become appetizers for mothers in summer. Fresh fruits and vegetables are full of sunshine and crisp and sweet. In summer, this salad will be accompanied by bread, which sounds simple, but it has a refreshing feeling. This salad is definitely not an authentic food anywhere in Greece. On the contrary, it is a mixture of fresh and seasonal summer ingredients, so every family can change it according to their own tastes. The more expensive version mentioned earlier is to add a thick feta cheese to the summer salad.
In addition to this common Greek salad, in fact, in some traditional Greek restaurants, you can also eat another Greek salad called "farmer's salad". Some of them will add the word "farmer" after the name of Greek salad, while others will directly mark "Greek salad" in English, completely subverting our impression of foreign salads being eaten raw. When serving, boil a lot of spinach and sprinkle with a lot of olive oil.
Greek catering has a long tradition. As early as 330 BC, Greek gourmets wrote the first book about cooking in history. In Greece, olive oil is always put into food, which forms its unique flavor. This feeling of "color and fragrance" is not experienced anywhere else. Greek salad is very refreshing. Only when I have been to Greece do I know that what I don't eat locally is not authentic, and Greek salads in other places are simply not in place.
The secret of Greek diet lies in fresh ingredients, seasonings and olive oil. Because in the early years, Greeks often picked in the wild, and the ingredients were also convenient for cooking. Therefore, Greek salads usually include tomatoes, cucumber slices, green peppers, red onions, feta cheese and kalama olives. In addition, salt, Oregon leaves, olive oil and other seasonings are needed.
When tasting, the extremely soft feta cheese melts after a few chews, and the aroma of green peppers and onions lingers in the mouth for a long time. Olive sweet Q-bomb, fragrant with a bite, is the essence. Tomatoes are sweet and fragrant, and all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables are intertwined, which seems to be the best comfort from nature and tastes great. Sometimes, Greek salads also add pickled Capparis spinosa leaves, buds or berries, as well as vinegar, lemon juice and celery powder. This is a delicious food that can be eaten all year round.