nice video man , I like to serve it right away because the tomato starts to water so its a good idea to add the salt at the last minute if you want to keep it in the fridge , I just add olive oil and a tiny amount of balsamic vinegar , I don't like to add too much vinegar , I don't think acid goes well with milk products like feta so I only add a tiny amount , like 1 spoon
Dear Chef John, I've just lost my father. You probably couldn't believe what a simple support you've been to me. More power to your elbow. Keep on feeding the hungry. From Ireland, Lewis
I have made this salad for years in the summer, but today I learned 3 new tricks. Same size veggies, salting and vinegar before oil. You are the best Chef John!
A little tip I got from an greek chef, is actually to "marinade" the red onion in juice from half a lemon and 3-4 dl (I'm from Norway, believe it's 1,5 cup) of water, and let it be in the solution for 15-20 minutes. it realy makes a difference and take out the sharpness from the onion :-) Love your chanel !
Horiatiki, Chef John. Also - The Greeks like to use dry oregano and sprinkle it on large chunks of feta. The feta in Greece is sold in wood barrels and it's insanely good. Here's another food wish for the future - Dako salad.
The best part of the greek salad is dip a nice chunk of sourdough bread in the leftover juices^^ Btw, I'm from Italy, and my grandma always ate something very similar as Summer dish, basically the greek salad without feta and bell peppers and with Tuna as main protein.
Serial Snarker Alex You can get away with omitting the tomato by appeasing the Greeks through rubbing your entire body in olive oil. You can make the salad the way you want, Mediterranean salads mostly consist of chopping up what grows in your garden and throwing it on a plate with some other stuff you have laying around.
Brought this to a friend's house today and it was a hit! Left with an empty bowl.I used Roma tomatoes and crumbled feta. Also only had dried oregano, but it was still great. Chef John wins everytime!
I just wanted you to know, Chef John, that ever since I started watching your videos a few years ago, I have started making my own Cayenne pepper powder from my own recipe. I have never used it in my dishes before watching your video. Jump to present day, I am now fermenting batches of cayenne peppers for around 3 months along with various spices and garlic. Drying them out and pulverizing them into such a delicious "Shake of cayenne" I add to almost all of my dishes. Much respect, my man.
I love this salad. It is one of my favorites. (Although I like a little banana peppers and more cheese) Seeing it makes me miss one of my ex-girlfriends. We spent a wonderful summer together a few years back, attending music festivals and camping pretty much every weekend. She was Greek/Palestinian in heritage. I learned a lot that year and we had the greatest times.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, feta cheese, olive oil, oregano (usually dry) is the basis. Olives, peppers, vinegar are optional but very welcome. Add in some crumbled rusks/crackers/sippets (paximadi in Greek) and you have a salad made in heaven. Quick, easy and delicious.
I love Greek salad and never made one at home that I found satisfactory...now I don't have to go out. And BTW you don't know how good a Greek salad is until you reach the bottom and everything is melding together. Thank you Chef John!!
Dear Chef John: 1) I don't know if the English cucumbers are bitter but here in Drapetsona, Greece are sweet so we don't have to extract any of their juices. In the end we have more of the gazpacho-style juice and we use more bread (toasted of course) to clean the bowl. 2) I was expecting to add AND dried oregano! As you always say, it's totally another flavor. Actually, if some old Greek lady tells me that they used to dry the oregano just to put it on this salad, I wouldn't be surprised. 3-and most important) TOMATOES IN THE FRIDGE? Letting the salad 10-15' -outside the fridge- is the best you can do for all those flavors. But chilling the tomato? You'll end up with a beautiful Greek salad without its main ingredient! (You know we love you - @Teletai_Mpouk)
I don’t think it’s that they are bitter, but just full of water, and salting adds flavor while drawing out some of the water. Whereas eggplant may be salted to extract the bitterness, a little salting gives flavor and keeps the cucumber from making a lot of soupy liquid in the final dish.
Nice twist. Alternatively. In the classic Greek salad served all over Greece: - vinegar is optional if not forbidden - the feta cheese is served as a whole in top of the salad. This way you can see that it's actual feta cheese and not cheese barrel trimmings and leftovers. Furthermore you can set the feta aside and eat it separately because it can dominate the taste of the salad. - Dry oregano. - No cucumber drying through salting. We want the juices. Dipping fresh Bread in this salad's juices is half of the whole satisfaction. - No black pepper in classic Greek salad. - Don't cut to much olives especially when they are cured in brine with vinegar. It dominates the taste over the vegetables. Olives should few in numbers and not sliced. - A lot of good quality olive oil. Hugely important. Preferably Greek extra virgin olive oil with low acidity.
I'm in my 60's and my simple eating go to's are relatively heathier and more easily digestible foods = salads, soups, stews, and chowders. thanks for this one Chef John 👍
I love you Chef John!! I always learn so many things watching your videos, and I've been cooking for like 30 something years, and my mom was a Home Ec teacher, and so was my grandma. you're simply amazing!!! thanks again and again for all your help! xoxo
looks amazing. heres a nice tip, discard the middle part of the cucumber before dicing it up (its the softer part with the seeds), that way the salad becomes even more crunchy. thats how they do it in the restaurants in my country. also, refrigirate your vegetables before cutting, that way you dont need to let the salad rest in the fridge.
I have been making this salad a lot since moving to Sweden because it is delicious and so easy to make and cheap ingredients. One thing I picked up was using feta that is marinating in oregano infused olive oil... You can always add more oregano if need be and if you add too much oil.. using citrus to cut through the thickness of the oil adds a really nice freshness to the salad. It is a huge hit for everyone that eats it.
I'm Greek and you should 100% serve it immediately. Tomatoes and cucumbers lose their nice flavor when chilled in the fridge. Whatever folks say overnight, they like a mushy tasteless salad.
Chef - My only comment of a negative nature is - No gazpacho - One must enjoy a salad such as this with really good, rustic and crusty loaf od bread...Dipped INTO the sauce. AHHHH, one of life's joys........I really enjoy and learn from ALL your videos, so thank you, this too is another superb instructional and fun video.
Chef John. I have just put this salad together, as well as cooked your roasted Greek chicken, minus the potatoes, and my GOD! Every bite is exploding with flavor! I’ll definitely be making these regularly for years to come. Thank you
A Greek grandma that lived near me before used to replace some of the oregano with fresh dill, idk if that's a personal thing or what but it really tastes great too
All the thing in greek salad is the leftover juice from tomato and olive oil with the feta cheese for doing "papara" with the bread. Chef i love your channel
I'm Greek and I make my salads almost exactly like this.... I prefer to only let it sit for about 5-10 minutes in the fridge and I use lemon instead of vinegar. It's also great to add quinoa (which is totally un-Greek, but really fantastic too :)
I made this for dinner tonight! adding leftover diced, grilled chicken & crusty croutons to soak up the yummy dressing was all it took to have an amazing main dish salad for a holiday weekend!
Chef John, in this recipe you mentioned the cucumbers being bitter. I had someone to let me know that if you cut both ends off of the cucumbers it takes away the bitterness rather than just cutting one end off. It worked for me even if I only use half of the cucumber I still cut the end off of the other half before storing it.
Chef, I just made this beautiful salad. Thank you for the recipe. And yes, salting the cucumbers and letting them sit for a bit made a wonderful bit of difference.
Chef John I love your recipes, but oregano in Greek salad is always dry. Fresh oregano is not strong enough. A Greek salad should smell like walking on a Greek mountain on a late summer day i.e. it should smell of oregano. Also vinegar is optional.
Of course if you don't like something you shouldn't eat it! I was just talking about what the most authentic version is. If you use fresh oregano you could use more and chop it very finely to simulate the effect of dry oregano.
When I first started watching Chef John’s videos, his voice creeped me out sooo badly that I unsubscribe... I just resubscribed because every time I run across a yummy recipe and great method...I run into chef John ....over and over again....chef John your videos and recipes are super fabulous...and your voice doesn’t creep me out anymore since I saw what you look like in person. Thank you sooooo very much for sharing ! You have fabulous skill and love the guidance you share. Happy New Year! 🥳
What I learned from making this dish: I like red wine vinegar. (I normally HATE vinegar.) I learned what a pepperoncini was. Never ever buy whole olives with the pit still inside. I learned I can tolerate raw red onion a lot better than I thought. (I normally don't like raw onion AT ALL) Thanks Chef John!
Beautiful! I love colorful food, that lets me know that it’s healthy - I tell those that are trying to improve their diet, the more colorful your food is, the more flavors you’ll have!!!
Great video as always Chef John! This salad is so great to take into work, it's got me through a lot of night shifts for sure, it's so refreshing and healthy. My husband who travels with his job also always packs plenty of this in a cooler bag. Every single ingredient in this Greek salad is so delicious. The cherry tomatoes add such a lovely sweetness and with the Greek olives, oregano and feta cheese ... Scrumptious! :) 🍅🍅🍅
Awesome!!! When I make Traditional Greek Salad, I use all Greek ingredients... Even my Feta comes from Greece... I learned something from your method that had never occurred to me... Put the Vinegar in before the Oil... I should have known, but Dauh... lol Thanks for the tip... I'm sure it will make a difference... I just finished a Greek Salad today... It usually takes me 3 days to get through it... However, the juice in the bottom of my bowl is incredible... I drink it... :-)
What you should also learn is that no one in Greece puts vinegar, or lemon juice, or any kind of acid in our salad. What we do add, are huge amounts of the best extra virgin olive oil in the universe. That way we can also dunk bread while we eat our salad (we call this papara) and the flavor of the oil is not lost.
Tell that to this guy... ua-cam.com/video/iFC7-urzfXw/v-deo.html A g/f of mine is Greek... and she puts Vinegar in her salad too... Oh! and this channel... Tell them that they've screwed up the recipe... ua-cam.com/video/pNV6Vk5GeC8/v-deo.html
Tomato, onion, cucumber, olive, feta cheese, olive oil is the classic recipe 8/10 people dont add vinegar just olive oil i personally dont like it in greek (choriatiki) salad
Looks like a tasty salad! But, not totally traditional. If you like it to be totally traditional use the following changes: - Use large sun-ripened tomatoes, must be sweet (Peak of summer is the only season we make this salad!) - It must be green bell pepper to get that hint of bitterness (The bitter flavour is missing from Chef John's salad) - No vinegar at all, but extra oil This salad is always eaten with bread, so make sure to leave pieces of bread soak in that juice. When the salad is finished so should the juices!
I’ve always made this salad at home! I just tried this recipe for today’s lunch and what a difference salting the cucumbers 🥒 can make! Also, I don’t know why oregano 🌿 wasn’t added in our recipe!! A more intense flavor!
I noticed you didn't add chopped garlic. Most Greek Salad recipes do use it. We love garlic but I think your version looks just perfect so I'm going go with that one for my husband and me. Thank you for another terrific recipe!
Looks amazing ! I’m definitely making this and adding some fresh parsley and oregano or maybe some dill. Also I always rinse my onion after cutting it up to mellow it a bit . I love onions 😍.
I love the old salt and rinse. It’s my favorite way to eat cucumbers. We made the bread and butter pickles a few weekends ago and we probably ate half the cucumbers just plain salted.
Definitely the best salad ever. I like Wensleydale cheese with cranberries in mine. I'm not a fan of lettuce in salads, but those tomatoes really did it for me though. I think we call them heritage tomatoes in England. 👍
Check out the recipe: www.allrecipes.com/Recipe/267974/My-Big-Fat-Greek-Salad/
Anchovies! you forgot the anchovies.
@@machetedonttweet1343 Most people hate anchovies.
nice video man , I like to serve it right away because the tomato starts to water so its a good idea to add the salt at the last minute if you want to keep it in the fridge , I just add olive oil and a tiny amount of balsamic vinegar , I don't like to add too much vinegar , I don't think acid goes well with milk products like feta so I only add a tiny amount , like 1 spoon
Dinner. Tonight!
What's the best way to do cucumbers so you don't keep burping them later? I love them. Does taking the peeling off help?
"You are the Plato of when to plate bro"
That one was beautiful
Dear Chef John, I've just lost my father. You probably couldn't believe what a simple support you've been to me. More power to your elbow. Keep on feeding the hungry. From Ireland, Lewis
More power to you man
Thinking of you, Lewis.
May his memory be a blessing to you.
I'm so so sorry for your loss. :(
I just finished making a coddle for you
I have made this salad for years in the summer, but today I learned 3 new tricks. Same size veggies, salting and vinegar before oil. You are the best Chef John!
Made this exact recipe about 3 hours ago. It’s perfection!! I did not change a thing. Highly recommend this Big Greek Salad. Thank you Chef Jon!!
A little tip I got from an greek chef, is actually to "marinade" the red onion in juice from half a lemon and 3-4 dl (I'm from Norway, believe it's 1,5 cup) of water, and let it be in the solution for 15-20 minutes. it realy makes a difference and take out the sharpness from the onion :-) Love your chanel !
“Optional, but also mandatory.”
Horiatiki, Chef John. Also - The Greeks like to use dry oregano and sprinkle it on large chunks of feta. The feta in Greece is sold in wood barrels and it's insanely good. Here's another food wish for the future - Dako salad.
The best part of the greek salad is dip a nice chunk of sourdough bread in the leftover juices^^
Btw, I'm from Italy, and my grandma always ate something very similar as Summer dish, basically the greek salad without feta and bell peppers and with Tuna as main protein.
In Greece, we like our salad the same way that we like our debt: as BIG as possible.
BTW Chef John, capers are optional.
would it be a crime to omit the tomato?
Good to see Greek people haven't lost their sense of humor!
Yes Alex, you go to jail long time.
Feta Cheezz awww, I never developed a taste for tomato. I'll have to make a different salad then
Serial Snarker Alex
You can get away with omitting the tomato by appeasing the Greeks through rubbing your entire body in olive oil.
You can make the salad the way you want, Mediterranean salads mostly consist of chopping up what grows in your garden and throwing it on a plate with some other stuff you have laying around.
Brought this to a friend's house today and it was a hit! Left with an empty bowl.I used Roma tomatoes and crumbled feta. Also only had dried oregano, but it was still great. Chef John wins everytime!
I just wanted you to know, Chef John, that ever since I started watching your videos a few years ago, I have started making my own Cayenne pepper powder from my own recipe. I have never used it in my dishes before watching your video. Jump to present day, I am now fermenting batches of cayenne peppers for around 3 months along with various spices and garlic. Drying them out and pulverizing them into such a delicious "Shake of cayenne" I add to almost all of my dishes. Much respect, my man.
I love this salad. It is one of my favorites. (Although I like a little banana peppers and more cheese) Seeing it makes me miss one of my ex-girlfriends. We spent a wonderful summer together a few years back, attending music festivals and camping pretty much every weekend. She was Greek/Palestinian in heritage. I learned a lot that year and we had the greatest times.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, feta cheese, olive oil, oregano (usually dry) is the basis.
Olives, peppers, vinegar are optional but very welcome.
Add in some crumbled rusks/crackers/sippets (paximadi in Greek) and you have a salad made in heaven. Quick, easy and delicious.
Not quite my tempo that’s good, I can’t stand olives. Blergh.
Well, that recipe does sound like my tempo!
Best wishes from Greece
@@happyspanners olives combined with feta is from other planet dude you should try it
I'm not a fan of olives. But I like to seed and slice a few pepperoncini and throw those in.
We tried this recipe today and the family says it’s a keeper! Thanks for another great recipe 😋
I love Greek salad and never made one at home that I found satisfactory...now I don't have to go out. And BTW you don't know how good a Greek salad is until you reach the bottom and everything is melding together. Thank you Chef John!!
Dear Chef John:
1) I don't know if the English cucumbers are bitter but here in Drapetsona, Greece are sweet so we don't have to extract any of their juices. In the end we have more of the gazpacho-style juice and we use more bread (toasted of course) to clean the bowl.
2) I was expecting to add AND dried oregano! As you always say, it's totally another flavor. Actually, if some old Greek lady tells me that they used to dry the oregano just to put it on this salad, I wouldn't be surprised.
3-and most important) TOMATOES IN THE FRIDGE? Letting the salad 10-15' -outside the fridge- is the best you can do for all those flavors. But chilling the tomato? You'll end up with a beautiful Greek salad without its main ingredient!
(You know we love you - @Teletai_Mpouk)
Οι Τελεται Μπουκουρας βλέπουν τον Γιάνναρο;!
Εδώ και πολλά έτη. Ήγγικεν η ώραν όμως για ζεσθαθούν λίγο τα αίματα. Αρκετά με τα... ψυγεία!
What happens to chilled tomatoes?
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I don’t think it’s that they are bitter, but just full of water, and salting adds flavor while drawing out some of the water. Whereas eggplant may be salted to extract the bitterness, a little salting gives flavor and keeps the cucumber from making a lot of soupy liquid in the final dish.
Nice twist.
Alternatively. In the classic Greek salad served all over Greece:
- vinegar is optional if not forbidden
- the feta cheese is served as a whole in top of the salad. This way you can see that it's actual feta cheese and not cheese barrel trimmings and leftovers. Furthermore you can set the feta aside and eat it separately because it can dominate the taste of the salad.
- Dry oregano.
- No cucumber drying through salting. We want the juices. Dipping fresh Bread in this salad's juices is half of the whole satisfaction.
- No black pepper in classic Greek salad.
- Don't cut to much olives especially when they are cured in brine with vinegar. It dominates the taste over the vegetables. Olives should few in numbers and not sliced.
- A lot of good quality olive oil. Hugely important. Preferably Greek extra virgin olive oil with low acidity.
I'm in my 60's and my simple eating go to's are relatively heathier and more easily digestible foods = salads, soups, stews, and chowders. thanks for this one Chef John 👍
Chef John I love watching you everyday. You make cooking an art...thank you!
I love you Chef John!! I always learn so many things watching your videos, and I've been cooking for like 30 something years, and my mom was a Home Ec teacher, and so was my grandma. you're simply amazing!!! thanks again and again for all your help! xoxo
This is amazing!!! I made it today. I added Garbanzo beans for some protein. The flavors and the texture is fantastic!!
Yay! Love Greek salad
With Chef John it's got to a point where whenever I see any other chef doing a video, I just feel like they have no idea what they are talking about.
I love that he teaches technique along the way, which is really more important than any recipe.
Anyone else notice that yellow pear-shaped tomato throughout the entire video? Just me? Oh okay. Lol!
BurningRamen it was beautiful, especially for it's finale! #canttakemyeyesoffofyou
That was the first thing I saw in the video
I had those in my garden this summer. Very yummy.
I like eating them fresh when they're slightly warmed by the sun.
I grew some one time in my garden they are really good taste like tomato candy.
looks amazing. heres a nice tip, discard the middle part of the cucumber before dicing it up (its the softer part with the seeds), that way the salad becomes even more crunchy. thats how they do it in the restaurants in my country. also, refrigirate your vegetables before cutting, that way you dont need to let the salad rest in the fridge.
Just made this and it was a humongous hit. Adults and kids devoured it ❤️
I have been making this salad a lot since moving to Sweden because it is delicious and so easy to make and cheap ingredients. One thing I picked up was using feta that is marinating in oregano infused olive oil... You can always add more oregano if need be and if you add too much oil.. using citrus to cut through the thickness of the oil adds a really nice freshness to the salad. It is a huge hit for everyone that eats it.
I'm Greek and you should 100% serve it immediately. Tomatoes and cucumbers lose their nice flavor when chilled in the fridge. Whatever folks say overnight, they like a mushy tasteless salad.
Chef - My only comment of a negative nature is - No gazpacho - One must enjoy a salad such as this with really good, rustic and crusty loaf od bread...Dipped INTO the sauce. AHHHH, one of life's joys........I really enjoy and learn from ALL your videos, so thank you, this too is another superb instructional and fun video.
Watched within the first 50 views! Love this channel and every dish you make!!
I made this for family a couple of nights ago, fantastic salad, great combination of ingredients, red wine vinegar, olive oil, paprika just perfect!
Love Greek salad also ad fresh lemon to mine. Like watching what you cook.
Joanne
Chef John. I have just put this salad together, as well as cooked your roasted Greek chicken, minus the potatoes, and my GOD! Every bite is exploding with flavor! I’ll definitely be making these regularly for years to come. Thank you
I love that you end the videos with “as always, enjoyyyyyy” lol it makes me happy for some reason!!
You are always my go to....love your recipes and techniques
A Greek grandma that lived near me before used to replace some of the oregano with fresh dill, idk if that's a personal thing or what but it really tastes great too
Amazing. Very tasty. Best Greek Salad I've ever tasted outside of Greece. 👍🏾👌
One of the best recipes I've seen on UA-cam
All the thing in greek salad is the leftover juice from tomato and olive oil with the feta cheese for doing "papara" with the bread. Chef i love your channel
I'm Greek and I make my salads almost exactly like this.... I prefer to only let it sit for about 5-10 minutes in the fridge and I use lemon instead of vinegar. It's also great to add quinoa (which is totally un-Greek, but really fantastic too :)
I made this for dinner tonight! adding leftover diced, grilled chicken & crusty croutons to soak up the yummy dressing was all it took to have an amazing main dish salad for a holiday weekend!
and the salad was best right after being made.
Perfect timing Chef. I was planning on making Greek salad for lunch next week.
Who the fuck plans lunch a week in advance? I don't plan food until 5 minutes after I'm hungry
I’ve always made this with salad greens, but this looks much better. Some beets, warm pita, and grilled chicken and it’s a meal.
You are a rock star! I like the Greek recipes - a Mediterranean diet is a healthy one for us all. Thank you.
Chef John, in this recipe you mentioned the cucumbers being bitter. I had someone to let me know that if you cut both ends off of the cucumbers it takes away the bitterness rather than just cutting one end off. It worked for me even if I only use half of the cucumber I still cut the end off of the other half before storing it.
Chef 👨🏾🍳 John! That is beautiful!!! 🥗 I will be making it!!
My mom made this salad and it was absolutely delicious. I will ask her to make another one today.
Chef, I just made this beautiful salad. Thank you for the recipe. And yes, salting the cucumbers and letting them sit for a bit made a wonderful bit of difference.
Great salad. Loved the fresh oregano in it. I didn't add any extra salt except for what I used to salt the cucumbers, and it was PERFECT. Thanks.
One of my favorite salads/meals/things ever!!! I Do not want wait to make this version!! Wow...simply delicious!
TWO! Woah, is this unprecedented? I feel honored to be here with an unsung ballad, of your Grecian salad.
Chef John I love your recipes, but oregano in Greek salad is always dry. Fresh oregano is not strong enough. A Greek salad should smell like walking on a Greek mountain on a late summer day i.e. it should smell of oregano.
Also vinegar is optional.
Haha, I love this description of the smell. And yes - dried is the way to go.
ondine217
I don't like dried herbs in my salad. Couldn't one just add more fresh oregano?
Of course if you don't like something you shouldn't eat it! I was just talking about what the most authentic version is. If you use fresh oregano you could use more and chop it very finely to simulate the effect of dry oregano.
too much fresh oregano tends to bitter
ondine217 100% agree
When I first started watching Chef John’s videos, his voice creeped me out sooo badly that I unsubscribe... I just resubscribed because every time I run across a yummy recipe and great method...I run into chef John ....over and over again....chef John your videos and recipes are super fabulous...and your voice doesn’t creep me out anymore since I saw what you look like in person. Thank you sooooo very much for sharing ! You have fabulous skill and love the guidance you share. Happy New Year! 🥳
So colorful and fresh. I bet with the cucumber and vinegar, it smells great too! This is definitely one I'll be making at sone point.
I love how you explain every step in a fun and natural voice. I want to eat healthier, hope this Greek salad is healthy. 😊
after all is said and done, this Greek salad is #1!
What I learned from making this dish:
I like red wine vinegar. (I normally HATE vinegar.)
I learned what a pepperoncini was.
Never ever buy whole olives with the pit still inside.
I learned I can tolerate raw red onion a lot better than I thought. (I normally don't like raw onion AT ALL)
Thanks Chef John!
John, I made this as an entree salad for Saturday night dinner for my wife & I. We loved it and I think it renewed her love for me. ;-) Thanks, man.
Chef John your videos put me to sleep. Something about your videos are hypnotizing
Beautiful! I love colorful food, that lets me know that it’s healthy - I tell those that are trying to improve their diet, the more colorful your food is, the more flavors you’ll have!!!
Amazing recipe. I make mine with roasted bell pepper and it’s out of this world
Chef John may not have come up with the salad's name, but he is the inventor of the optional yet mandatory step. Take a bow, sir.
I've been saying WOW a lot when I watch your cooking videos. But this salad watching ypu pit ot toogether rates another wow!
I made this tonight. It was sublime. ♥️ Thank you for the recipe.
Great video as always Chef John! This salad is so great to take into work, it's got me through a lot of night shifts for sure, it's so refreshing and healthy. My husband who travels with his job also always packs plenty of this in a cooler bag. Every single ingredient in this Greek salad is so delicious. The cherry tomatoes add such a lovely sweetness and with the Greek olives, oregano and feta cheese ... Scrumptious! :) 🍅🍅🍅
Awesome!!! When I make Traditional Greek Salad, I use all Greek ingredients... Even my Feta comes from Greece... I learned something from your method that had never occurred to me... Put the Vinegar in before the Oil... I should have known, but Dauh... lol Thanks for the tip... I'm sure it will make a difference... I just finished a Greek Salad today... It usually takes me 3 days to get through it... However, the juice in the bottom of my bowl is incredible... I drink it... :-)
I drink the juice too! Lol I do that with ceviche juice too...
guys you can also deep your bread inside the juice and eat it! It's much better and you will get full really quick!
Unless you diet so no bread ;P
Always drink the juice, or dip bread in it 😀
What you should also learn is that no one in Greece puts vinegar, or lemon juice, or any kind of acid in our salad. What we do add, are huge amounts of the best extra virgin olive oil in the universe. That way we can also dunk bread while we eat our salad (we call this papara) and the flavor of the oil is not lost.
Tell that to this guy... ua-cam.com/video/iFC7-urzfXw/v-deo.html
A g/f of mine is Greek... and she puts Vinegar in her salad too...
Oh! and this channel... Tell them that they've screwed up the recipe... ua-cam.com/video/pNV6Vk5GeC8/v-deo.html
....while the step of salting and draining the cucumber is optional, it is also Mandatory.....love your videos! Best!
This looks FANTASTIC! Yum!😀
“…while I did say this step was optional, it’s also mandatory.” Love it.
You make everything so easy and understandable THANK YOU!
This is why my Greek salad never tastes as good as in restaurants. I’ve looked up so many recipes. No one gives these tips. Thank you Chef John!
Tomato, onion, cucumber, olive, feta cheese, olive oil is the classic recipe 8/10 people dont add vinegar just olive oil i personally dont like it in greek (choriatiki) salad
Looks like a tasty salad! But, not totally traditional. If you like it to be totally traditional use the following changes:
- Use large sun-ripened tomatoes, must be sweet (Peak of summer is the only season we make this salad!)
- It must be green bell pepper to get that hint of bitterness (The bitter flavour is missing from Chef John's salad)
- No vinegar at all, but extra oil
This salad is always eaten with bread, so make sure to leave pieces of bread soak in that juice. When the salad is finished so should the juices!
Chef John as a Greek I should say that Greek "village" salad should be chunky and rustic and messy, like our economy. Love you chef John!
As a fellow Greek.... mwahahahaha! have a cookie παλικάρι!
U guys have the best humour, don’t you! 😂 💀
😂😂😂
@@skylar_kada you're welcome to join our madness sweetheart
Not enough feta.
lol...right on, spygirl43!
You absolutely could do better... If you like lots of feta
I clicked so fast love greek salad!
Great video. Never knew about the salt and rinse trick for cucumbers. More salad videos please!
I’ve always made this salad at home! I just tried this recipe for today’s lunch and what a difference salting the cucumbers 🥒 can make! Also, I don’t know why oregano 🌿 wasn’t added in our recipe!! A more intense flavor!
I noticed you didn't add chopped garlic. Most Greek Salad recipes do use it. We love garlic but I think your version looks just perfect so I'm going go with that one for my husband and me. Thank you for another terrific recipe!
It's making my mouth water!
This salad looks gorgeous. Thank you for sharing another great recipe.
Looks amazing ! I’m definitely making this and adding some fresh parsley and oregano or maybe some dill. Also I always rinse my onion after cutting it up to mellow it a bit . I love onions 😍.
You did it right.....I like a light touch of fresh lemon myself, but As you I also have used a Good aged Red Wine Vinager.
Thanks for this one Chef John! Wonderful!
I've been eating this for 10 years and it's amazing! If I could I'd eat it every day :) Nice one Chef John
I made this today and it was incredible!
Deliciouso! Thank you for sharing
I love the old salt and rinse. It’s my favorite way to eat cucumbers. We made the bread and butter pickles a few weekends ago and we probably ate half the cucumbers just plain salted.
Optional but required...don't be a hero...people like pointy food...the Plato of when to plate bro...AWESOME MADNESS!
i love greece and greek salads
Looks Amazing!!! Love your videos!! 😁
One thing missing is bread , to dip in the salad dressing for maximum flavour delivery!! Lovely outcome for a traditional dish chef John :)
Loved it. Thanks for sharing.
Gotta love a new Chef John video!
Definitely the best salad ever. I like Wensleydale cheese with cranberries in mine. I'm not a fan of lettuce in salads, but those tomatoes really did it for me though. I think we call them heritage tomatoes in England. 👍
Thanks for another great recipe Chef and for teaching me that I am the Plato of my heirloom tomato.
It looks so good!!!!!!
I have only made like 2 or 3 dishes you have shown, but I still love watching your videos
My family loves it when I make his recipes!
Mmmmmmmm i love salad and this looks soooo good
No way I just got back from a greek restaurant and ate this salad so good. You always release the best videos at crazy good times