Greek cooking

Cooking is part of its country's tradition.
The Greek team cooked for all  "Blogtrotters across Europe" two famous Greek dishes, the "Horiatiki" salad and "Tzatziki" salad. 

 It was a great experience to cook online during a videoconference with the Polish team. It's a pitty that we couldn't share with all of you, the salads we cooked.
 We hope the following video will help you to cook and taste them.Click on the link:

COOKING VIDEO

Here there are the recipes:

"Horiatiki" salad

 Ingredients:

   3- 4 large tomatoes

   1 cucumber

   1 medium onion

   1 green bell pepper

   100-150 gr of Greek feta cheese

   dried oregano

   salt

   virgin olive oil

   Greek olives

   Some vinegar (optional)

Preparation:

•   Wash and dry the tomatoes, cucumber, and green pepper.
•   Clean off the outer skin from the onion, wash, and dry.
• In a large salad bowl :
•   Cut the tomatoes irregularly
•   Slice the cucumber
•   Slice the pepper into thin rings removing the stem and seeds
•   Slice the onion into thin rings
•   Add the Greek feta cheese, cut in small cubes
•   Sprinkle with oregano
•   Just before serving salt lightly
•   Pour olive oil over the salad
•   Mix them all.
•   Add some olives on the top of the salad.

"Tzatziki"

Ingredients

 300 gr Greek creamy yoghurt

1 cucumber,

1 garlic clove,
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon minced fresh dill 

 salt 
 
Directions:
  In a salad bowl 

• put the Greek creamy yoghurt
•   peel and  grate the cucumber on a box grater or cut in very small cubes, salt lightly for 5 minutes and squeeze between the hands to remove cucumber's water
•  mash the garlic to a paste 
• add the  olive oil 
• add the  minced fresh dill
• add salt
• mix everything up together until it is all blended and the oil has emulsified into the yoghurt

  Taste for seasoning,  add salt or more garlic if you think necessary. 

It is served perfectly with bbq'd meats, souvlaki , shish kebab, fried zucchinis or eggplant slices.