Why do housewives in Crete not interfere with Greek salad, as sliced and served

Surely every housewife is sure that making a Greek salad is no more difficult than cutting everyone’s favorite olive. However, practice shows that greekThe food we eat in Greece is very different from what we call Greek salad. What's the difference?

Today's edition. "Site" She will share the discoveries of a reader who is lucky enough to get to know Greek culture (and cuisine). The fact is that the husband of this young lady was a Greek farmer Janis, who has been collecting olives on the island of Crete for two decades. And this man knows exactly how to cook certain dishes in Greece. And what kind of Greek salad it will not be.



I am sure that our hostess wake up in the middle of the night, and she will easily chop olives. I've always been one of those hostesses. And when it comes to Greek women, they cut Greek salad just as easily. By the way, in the local region it is called village and cooked just everywhere, writes Maria.



“Not to say that this dish is treated with some special piety. Just take what's at hand and crumble. So in the salad is feta, cucumbers with tomatoes and onions with olives. They find the pepper and put the pepper. If they find a salad, they will add it.”

Before I moved to Crete, I believed that a Greek salad should contain only red onions. But in the first salad on the island of Crete, I found a white onion. She asked her husband, and he just smiled, saying that it doesn’t matter what color onions, on the contrary, more often white put.



“The second thing that offended me was the large chunks of feta. Did they not even bother to cut it? It turned out that the cheese for the Greek salad is not cut. They just put in a big piece. And when the salad is disturbed, the feta itself breaks into pieces. It turns out that cutting is not necessary. And the Greeks are such people, with flax, if you can not do something, you will not do it.”



In short, I had seen enough of this salad and decided to make one for my husband at home. But Janis sat down at the table and immediately rejected. It turns out that out of habit we chop salad very small. But the Greeks do not eat salad with a spoon, but with a fork. Therefore, for convenience, you need to chop in large pieces, so that even a fork is eaten comfortably. That's it.

What should butter be like? “And finally, I note that it is cold-pressed olive oil that is used for dressing this Greek salad. A lot of people have butter. Olives are harvested, butter is made. If they do not, they take from neighbors or from acquaintances. There is no problem with that.”



It turned out to be simple: in the Greek salad, the most important thing is quality products, from your own garden or bought from familiar farmers.

“Crack bigger than tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Add half-rings of onions as well as olives (if any, of course). Next, plant a piece of feta, sprinkle oregano and add olive oil on top. Stir before the meal when the salad is already on the table, and eat with a fork. Baldeges! assures Maria.



Of course, everyone cooks such a popular salad in their own way. Someone adds a red onion, and someone goes white. Someone cuts feta into cubes, and someone leaves a large piece. No wonder this dish is cooked differently. It is likely that in Greece itself, salad Different housewives cook differently. But cooking is the good thing that it always has a place for creativity and experimentation.

Which Greek salad do you like best?