Category: Salads

Orzo Salad

This orzo salad captures the essence of Greek cuisine with its vibrant colors and bold flavors. It’s a versatile and satisfying dish that celebrates the freshness of wholesome ingredients.

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Greek Roasted Beet Salad

There are many ways to prepare beets, but one of the easiest ways is by roasting them. This roasted greek beet salad brings out the rustic, sweet, and delicious flavor of the beets, and it’s a simple and healthy side dish that goes with almost anything.

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Lahanosalata

Lahanosalata, or cabbage salad, is a simple, delicious, and healthy salad that is very popular in all of Greece, particularly in the Central Macedonian region.

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Cretan Salad

A Cretan salad is not limited to just a traditional greek salad with barley rusks. Some of the most delicious and innovative salads can be found in Crete — every restaurant we visited had their own special twist.

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Maroulosalata

What is maroulosalata? In Greek, marouli means lettuce, and salata means salad. This recipe is quick, easy, and most importantly delicious. The key is to have fresh ingredients on hand.

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Greek Village Salad (Horiatiki)

A greek village salad, or horiatiki salata, is a traditional salad that doesn’t have any lettuce in it. It is made with fresh tomatoes, cucumber, green peppers, kalamata olives, red onion, feta, and sometimes a few pepperoncini peppers thrown in for fun.

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Cretan Dakos

Cretan dakos is a simple but delicious appetizer, and can be thought of as greek bruchetta. It is typically made with barley rusks, topped with chopped tomatoes, crumbled feta or mizithra cheese, and dried oregano.

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