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Love & Best Dishes: Horiatiki Recipe (Authentic Greek Salad Recipe) | Summer Side Dish Ideas
Jun 24, 2026
Horiatiki Recipe (Authentic Greek Salad Recipe) | Summer Side Dish Ideas - If you want to sample the Mediterranean diet, learn how to make a greek salad with feta cheese and a healthy salad dressing from Joseph Harris. This authentic horiatiki salad is fresh and delicious—perfect for summer!
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- Hey, guys, it's Joseph again,
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and it's an honor to be here filling in for Ms. Paula
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while she's taking some time away to be with her grandkids.
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And this is a beautiful, beautiful summer salad
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that I think you guys are going to enjoy.
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It's a Greek salad, but it's an authentic Greek salad.
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And it's called in Greek horiatiki,
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but you can just call it an authentic Greek salad.
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And in Greece, there's no lettuce in the actual salad.
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Here in the United States, when you get a Greek salad,
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you might go to a Greek restaurant,
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or many restaurants serves Greek salads,
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but they always just do it
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with lettuce and tomato and cucumber.
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But in Greece, it's actually not like that.
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And I'm going to show you guys
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how to authentically make this.
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Any time that I make this recipe, people love it.
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They wear it out 'cause it's so good.
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It's super easy, it's very healthy.
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It's considered like the Mediterranean diet.
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And so, it's something that's perfect for summer
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because you wanna keep the pounds down,
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but keep the flavor full.
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And so, we're gonna make this today,
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and it's super simple.
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We have some beautiful tomatoes,
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English cucumbers.
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If you have fresh cucumbers from your garden,
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you can use that too, as well.
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Have some green pepper,
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oregano, feta cheese, red onion.
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We also have some Kalamata olives
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and some peperoncini,
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Greek peperoncini is very important to have,
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red wine vinegar,
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and some organic EVOO.
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And so, we're gonna do this real quick
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and show you guys how to do this.
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This is a perfect recipe to do
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if you have some last-minute guests coming to your house
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and you need something quick to make.
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I know Ms. Paula, I've heard her say
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she likes to do a, what do you call it?
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A pea salad, a garden pea salad,
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'cause it's quick and easy to put together.
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This is another one of those recipes
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that's quick and easy to be able to do on the fly.
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And so, what we're doing is we're just slicing our tomatoes
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into chunks like this,
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and we're going to put them into a bowl.
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We're gonna mix everything up here in just a second.
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I have visited Greece many times.
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Some of the organizations that we help support
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there in Thessaloniki, Greece, visit often.
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And I was there last year,
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and every time we go,
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we always have this salad.
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Any restaurant you go to, any thea's house,
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which is aunt in Greek,
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any of their houses that you go to,
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they're going to have this on the table.
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Even if you just ate,
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they're gonna make you sit down,
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sit at the table,
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and eat this amazing salad
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along with a bunch of different breads.
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Oh, Greece is, I think,
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my favorite country to go to,
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as far as food goes.
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- [Director] So, tell them a little bit about
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the organization you work with.
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- Absolutely, yes!
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So, I have a nonprofit organization.
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it's called Love Center.
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You can look it up online, lovecenter.info.
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And part of what we do
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is we reach nations and change lives,
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all through, of course, we believe in Jesus,
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and all through his love for people and humanity.
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We are big on stopping for the one
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and going into unreached people groups,
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helping other organizations
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who reach unreached people groups
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or people who are servicing widows,
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people who are servicing
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children who do not have families.
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And we not only partner with them
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to go and help feed and love on them,
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but we also try and do
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financial support to them, too, as well.
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Where we might not be able to go all of the time,
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we love to extend our resources that God blesses us with
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to be able to go and make a difference
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in each of their lives.
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And so, I was just in Greece last year doing that,
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and it was such a phenomenal time.
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Got to cook for the kids at one of the children's houses
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that we monthly support.
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It's called Abba House.
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You can look it up
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if you'd like to get more information on that.
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My dear friend Jenny Papapostolou
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is the one that introduced me
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to all of this amazing Greek cooking.
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And yeah, and so it's an honor
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to share this with you guys today.
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So, now what we're going to do is cut up our,
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we're actually gonna add in our cucumber, here.
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And I like a lot of cucumber.
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I'm not big on tomatoes,
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but I will eat it in the sake of this salad. (laughs)
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And we're also going to add in some fresh green pepper.
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And what I did was I sliced the green pepper crosswise,
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and then now, what I'm doing
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is just slicing it into thin slices,
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because you want the vegetables that are going in here
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to be pretty uniform.
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And it just makes it easier to eat, really,
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if everything is a similar size.
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And so, we're just slicing this up,
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and then we're gonna season it up and add in our onions.
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Just so good.
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The produce in Greece is,
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I mean, I can't even describe it.
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It's so delicious.
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The desserts in Greece are phenomenal.
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They have dessert shops probably on every corner,
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and you find the most delicious pastries and breads
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and anything you can think of.
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So, I'm being a real big advocate for Greece right now.
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If you have an opportunity to go, you should go.
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Now, we're just adding in some chopped red onion,
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excuse me, sliced red onion.
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Okay, and then now, what we're going to do,
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the most important thing, I think,
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in this recipe is salt.
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And you might think,
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"Oh, it doesn't need a lot of salt."
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Actually, it needs quite a bit of salt
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because you have all of these vegetables
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that are not seasoned.
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One of the big things that I find
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that a lot of people don't know to do is season salads.
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Salads are vegetables,
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and so you wanna make sure that you add salt and pepper,
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if you can have salt and pepper.
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If you can't have it, ignore that. (laughs)
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But for the most part, you wanna season this,
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because these are unseasoned vegetables,
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and salads will take on a much different flavor
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when you season the vegetables.
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And so, we're just gonna add
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just a little bit of salt, here.
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And then, what I like to do is just let this sit
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for about, maybe, two to three minutes,
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just to extract some of the juices from the vegetables.
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And then, we'll come back together
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and put the rest of the salad together.
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Great, okay, so now you can see,
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see how beautiful the juices from the tomato
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have started to secrete into the salad?
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You want that.
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That's pungent, delicious, natural flavor
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that you want to showcase in this beautiful salad.
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And so, what we're going to do now
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is we're going to add in some oregano.
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I know it looks like a lot,
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but the oregano is really important.
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I'm just mixing this with my hands.
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In Greece, they do the same thing.
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So, just make sure you got clean hands
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that you've washed really, really well.
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And then, what we're going to do now
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is we're going to build in our dressing.
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The traditional dressing is just red wine vinegar
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as well as organic olive oil,
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or just any type of olive oil.
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It doesn't have to be organic.
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But we're going to, they don't really measure it.
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You can, the recipe will definitely have
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some measurement to it,
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but what I like to do is just pour
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maybe about a quarter of a cup
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of red wine vinegar into a bowl.
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And what I also like to do,
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let me do this, this is not in the recipe.
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We're gonna use the peperoncini.
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I'm going to put a little bit
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of the stock from the peperoncini, the juice from that,
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into this dressing as well,
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and it just adds another level of flavor.
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And what we're gonna do now
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is we're gonna add in our olive oil.
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Okay, equal parts olive oil to equal parts liquid,
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or maybe just a little bit more.
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So, maybe if it's a quarter cup of vinegar,
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then I would do, maybe,
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at least a half a cup of olive oil,
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depending on how big your salad is.
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We may not use all of this,
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but we're gonna mix this all up together
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until it becomes emulsified a little bit.
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And if it's a little loose, it's fine.
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Greek salad is not supposed to,
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or horiatiki is not supposed to be,
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in the sense, like a traditional salad.
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It is definitely more,
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a little bit more wet, I would say,
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as far as the texture goes.
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But this is actually beautiful.
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This turned into a wonderful emulsion.
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And so, we're now just going to pour
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this dressing over the top.
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And we're also going to add in
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some fresh ground black pepper,
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which goes a long way on this beautiful salad.
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And what we're going to do now is
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just mix this all together one more time,
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and then we're going to plate it.
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Actually, let's use a
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spatula, here, real quick,
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just to mix this all together.
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And this smells amazing.
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If you have fresh tomatoes from the garden,
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fresh cucumbers,
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this is just one of those salads, I think,
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that you are going to enjoy making all of that with.
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And so, now we're gonna just spoon this
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onto our wonderful platter, here.
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Mm, it smells so good! (laughs)
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Smells like Greece.
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I love it, okay.
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And then, what we're going to do now
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is we're going to do a little bit of garnish.
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You can add in some beautiful Greek peperoncinis.
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And we're just gonna garnish with this.
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If you don't like spice, these aren't really spicy,
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they just add a really nice flavor.
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But if you don't like peppers,
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you don't have to do this.
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I love extra peppers,
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so I'm gonna put a lot on there.
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Okay.
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And then, what we're gonna do now
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is just add in a couple of Kalamata olives,
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just on the top.
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Doesn't have to be a whole bunch,
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especially if you don't like olives.
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If you don't like olives, you can omit this.
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But part of it being a real Greek salad
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is you definitely have to have the Kalamata olives, okay?
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And then, now what we're going to do is just top it
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with a little bit of feta cheese just on the top.
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And then, you can also put some feta in a bowl
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just to serve on the side,
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if people want extra feta.
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And this is horiatiki,
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an authentic Greek salad that you can make
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for your summer party
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or just for a wonderful summer night dinner.
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I think you guys are gonna enjoy it.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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