what do you put in a Greek salad

[PhaseAte]

apart from
Olive oil
lemon juice
cucumber
feta
onion
oregano

any other quirks?

[MarthaFarquhar]

Black olives deffo. and some mint.

[SpawnChorus]

Agree with black olives.

Cherry toms often get bunged in too.

[steamedtreaclesponge]

Yes, tomatoes essential!

[Guadalupe]

I always do tomato, cucumber, red onion, olive oil, lemon, some cider vinegar and herbs, often mint. I prefer kalamata olives in mine.

[SpawnChorus]

Or even better, proper big ripe juicy tomatoes in chunky slices. But I can never find decent tomatoes.

[SpawnChorus]

God I REALLY fancy a greek salad now.

[SpawnChorus]

[PhaseAte]

i dont LIKE black olives htough.

[brimfull]

pine nuts

[brimfull]

i like olives only if they are chopped up and spread around the salad

[MumtoCharlieandLola]

Greeks

[HeadFairy]

A few lettuce leaves just to space it all out a bit iyswim. Something like a nice Romaine lettuce. And goooood olive oil... Greek if you want to be really authentic.

[OhBling]

And the onion must be red onion.

[HeadFairy]

and very finely sliced, nothing worse than a mouthful of raw onion.

[PhaseAte]

wheil you are all there can i ask

family bbq on sunday.
about 15 of us.
are doing poshburgers and sausages.
then want 2 salads - potato with lemon vinaigrtee and then EITHER layerd toms with basil and onion on a large flat plate

OR greeky

what do you think

[HeadFairy]

Personally I love a good tomato salad (not sure about the raw onion in it though, lots of fresh basil and nice vinagrette is enough IMO)

[OhBling]

I'd go for the greeky with tomato.

Am with Head Fairy on the onion (in both posts) but will pass on the hint my godmother taught me which is... when using onion in salads, soak it in vinegar (red wine preferably but whatever) first - it takes out the onion "bite".

[brimfull]

def tomato salad

yummy

[HeadFairy]

Tomatoes add a bit of freshness to counter the richness of the meat.

[PhaseAte]

oh god oyu lot cant you all talk amongst yourselves and come up with the same answer?!

[ByTheSea]

Definitely big chunks of ripe tomato. I prefer red onion, kalamata olives and little gem lettuce works well too.

[Horton]

Oh yes, sliced tomatoes and sliced onions with oil and vinegar is fab. I'd go with that. Personally, I love the bite of raw onion.

[brimfull]

no no no

masses of tomatoes basil and mozzarella

keep it simple

[PhaseAte]

oh no to mozz as it looks shit after about 10 mins ime

[PhaseAte]

can i reccy the 101 salads book ( think its a bbc one)
is vg and not all " then add fennel"

urgh