Greek salads: horiatiki and maroulosalata
Photo credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus | Maroulosalata, left, is a romaine salad; horiatiki salata is lettuce-free.
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What is in a true Greek salad?
If you travel around Greece, you'll find exactly two green salads on almost every restaurant menu: horiatiki salata and maroulosalata.
Horiatiki salata (country or village salad) is what you get if you ask, in English, for "Greek salad." It is tomato, cucumber and green pepper, maybe some scallions or red onion sprinkled with dried oregano and drizzled...
