Greek salad according to Homer (Choriatiki Salata)

Category: Cold meals and snacks
Kitchen: greek
Greek salad according to Homer (Choriatiki Salata)

Ingredients

sheep's cheese, salty and tart sheep cheese, Greek cheese 100-150 grams
ripe olives - black olives with pits handful
green-eyed olives - pitted olives handful
sweet onion feakia - red onion 1 PC. big
brittle fresh salad crispy salad mix (1 packet)
basil tarragon and parsley a lot, to taste
yellow and red pepper 2 pcs. different
tomatoes 4 things. red ripe tomatoes, strong
a tooth of garlic 1 clove
lemon juice taste
olive oil taste

Cooking method

  • The list of all the ingredients and the description of the preparation of the salad are taken from the book by Boris Gaiduk "Terrine from the Hare", which contains a description of the recipe from Homer's "Odyssey":
  • COOKING PROCESS
  • Young rose from the darkness, with purple fingers, Eos,
  • The edge of the wine-colored sea was painted with a cool crimson.
  • The sounds of the Aeolian harp penetrated the sturdy tent:
  • "Get up soon, Odysseus, winner of the unfortunate Trojans!"
  • "Get up soon," Odysseus repeated, raising himself on his elbow,
  • - Calypso's feast today, sizzling meat from the braziers
  • Hot juice will feed the stomachs of the long-awaited guests,
  • Cheese, aspic, sausages, dessert will repeat without counting,
  • Wines of many colors, the divine gift of Dionysus, will be poured abundantly.
  • I will prepare Salatos for the table, and an unprecedented one.
  • With that precious booty taken under the walls of Troy! "
  • Saying, Odysseus jumped up and stretched out a coastal run,
  • The nymphs of the beautiful palace hastened, refreshing themselves with grapefruit juice.
  • She was already waiting for him: “Oh, Odysseus, a multi-Orthodox hero and a wanderer!
  • Your sword is known in battles, sail in the sea, wisdom shines in speech,
  • But other weapons glorified the name of the hero -
  • A culinary knife, a single-edged and peaceful blade! "
  • “Well, let's start,” the cautious Odysseus replied to the hostess, “
  • Bring me sheep's cheese, salty and tart.
  • It will become the basis of Salatos, like a solid foundation,
  • The one that holds and holds the solidly built palace! "
  • The cheese was brought, snow-white and dense, like Lemnos marble,
  • He greatly inspired Odysseus, he, pleased, exclaimed:
  • "Thank the gods, this will be a worthy Calypso Salatos!"
  • He sharpened the knife and cut the cheese into even slices.
  • Clever Odysseus scooped a handful of ripe olives from a tub,
  • Black, shiny and languid, like the eyes of beautiful Greek women.
  • To them, for the harmony of taste and charm of the general appearance, -
  • Green-eyed olives, slightly pointed and sour,
  • King Odysseus adds the wise in luxurious feasts.
  • The sweet onion of Theakia grinds the knife obedient and sharp.
  • Also brittle fresh salad taken from the morning garden.
  • The servants hastily carry the greenery of the mountain on a tray.
  • Odysseus took only three bunches - basil, tarragon and parsley,
  • He ordered the rest to be taken away. Anticle called loudly.
  • “Faithful Anticle, bring us tomatoes from Trojan trophies,
  • Deliver the pepper here, ”he threw a winged word to his friend.
  • Immediately faster than an arrow flew to the ship light-footed Anticles.
  • "Pepper! Tomatoes! " Cried the beautiful nymph in excitement.
  • So Anticles comes back with the overseas fruit.
  • Pointed peppers are beautiful, one of them is yellow,
  • Porphyry another, and five large and ripe tomatoes,
  • Like a bull's heart, raised for sweet bliss.
  • Again Odysseus sharpened his knife, the wise cook,
  • So that not a single dew of precious pure juice
  • Not spilled from tomatoes and bell peppers when cutting.
  • The case is in a hurry to end, the first guests are gathering.
  • A small tooth of garlic takes Odysseus out of his tunic.
  • He crumbles it into fine shavings, frowning sadly.
  • "What, Odysseus, what happened?" - Calypso runs up with a question.
  • “Okay, nothing,” Odysseus replies. - I remembered Ithaca,
  • Home, my Penelope, with good manners and glorious meekness,
  • I learned from her to put a garlic wedge in a salad. "
  • Silently, Calypso gave Odysseus a lemon and wiped away a tear.
  • The hero sprinkles the salad with lemon juice.
  • "Bring the oil!" - called Odysseus. The doors flew open in an instant.
  • At his call, a small amphora of oil was brought and placed next to him,
  • The sun of sultry olives, the honor and pride of Hellas.
  • Pours golden oil into the salad with the exact measure
  • Tsar Odysseus, with a good hand, gently interferes.
  • That's the end - sparkling proudly in the miletus Salatos.
  • Better than earthly and sea and underground treasures,
  • Food of the Olympian gods, any table decoration.
  • This is how Odysseus, the winner of the Trojans, prepared a salad,
  • Mixing together Achaea and Troy wealth in a common bowl,
  • To the glory of the immortal gods and the immortality of Hellas ...
  • Greek salad according to Homer (Choriatiki Salata)

Note

Cook with pleasure and bon appetit! Greek salad according to Homer (Choriatiki Salata)

*** yana ***
and eat and read! food of the gods !!!
MariS
Tanyusha,delicious! Everything is truly divine ... both poetry and salad !!! Everything is very tasty, especially from vegetables there - in Greece under the southern sun growing !!!
Admin
Quote: *** yana ***

and eat and read! food of the gods !!!

Yana, on health - interesting both! The salad turned out to be fresh to taste
Admin
Quote: MariS

Tanyusha,delicious! Everything is truly divine ... both poetry and salad !!! Everything is very tasty, especially from vegetables there - in Greece under the southern sun growing !!!

Marina, Thank you!

I doubted for a long time whether to make a salad in winter or wait until summer. Indeed, according to the description, such vegetables are ripe and tasty, tomatoes are a bull's heart - but where can I get them now ?!
Desire overpowered! I will repeat again in the summer
Olga from Voronezh
Bravo!!!!!!
Ikra
Ah, Admin! Struck right in the heart))))
"Eos rose from the darkness with purple fingers" ... - these are the favorite poems of youth! I seemed to remember everything, but about the salad ... dropped out! And, as it turned out over the years, this is the most important
Summer resident
Romochka as always tasty and interesting
Twist
Tanyusha, delicious!
Admin
Quote: Ikra

Ah, Admin! Struck right in the heart))))
"Eos rose from the darkness with purple fingers" ... - these are the favorite poems of youth! I seemed to remember everything, but about the salad ... dropped out! And, as it turned out over the years, this is the most important

Yes, over the years, we are more down to earth - we would have something to eat, but tastier

Girls THANKS from the bottom of my heart I didn't even expect such a surge of your emotions!
Ikra
Admin, it's just terribly interesting that the well-known Greek salad turns out to be actually ANCIENT GREEK! Thank you so much for digging this up.
I love the recipes "with history", they only make them tastier!
Admin
The fact that he is ancient Greek, I have known for a long time, and even tried to find a recipe on the internet! But there are recipes offered that, well, do not pull on real Greek salads, judging by the name GREEK!
And then suddenly a book caught my eye, I read it and believed

I love these salads - light and fresh to taste. I have enough books with culinary history to do everything
Aprelevna
I made a salad, thank you, for some reason never before when I prepared an ala Greek salad,
did not add lemon, and then a new taste opened up, we did not even salt it - the juice of a whole lemon made up for everything.
Delicious!! In general, I love this silo ...

Greek salad according to Homer (Choriatiki Salata)

Greek salad according to Homer (Choriatiki Salata)
Admin

Aprelevna, a beautiful salad turned out I also like to cut vegetables in large pieces. And I don't add salt to such a salad, there is enough salt from cheese. I agree with you, lemon gives a very good shade to salad

Cook to your health!
sazalexter
Admin Super salad! An important detail is the right olives, black dried Thassos or salted Amfissa, green salty Manaki. It is salty! Otherwise, the taste will change greatly, especially from those that are massively sold in stores with iron and citric acid
Admin

That's right, right Sasha! Unfortunately, I did not find such green olives.But I bought "Greek olives", dry "salted", they really differ in taste from "wet". A 250 gram jar of FRAGATA, I remember in my distant childhood, Greek children treated us to such olives, then it tasted so disgusting, but now it’s very tasty
In the photo of the salad, such an olive lies.

In general, such a salad needs to be prepared in the summer, in the midst of vegetables, when you can buy bovine heart tomatoes on the market, and fly to Moscow for cheese "salty and tart" (we don't have it on the market) - that's when Salatos might turn out in greek
sazalexter
Admin Tatyana, if you are in Moscow, look for olives of the delphi trademark in the hypermarkets, they are simply incomparable
Admin

Sasha, OK! Thank you!
BlackHairedGirl
SUPER!!! (y) even reading is delicious ... I read it with pleasure !!! Now you need to look for the right ingredients and do it! Thank you Tanyush !!!
Admin

Tatyana, Thank you! I'm waiting for the salad ready-made
Aprelevna
Let me remind you about the salad from Admin
Today I cooked it again, I must say that this summer, while vacationing in Greece, I often ordered nat. salad in restaurants ...
well, guys, this recipe cannot be compared with the Greeks resting
Admin another thanks !!
Admin
Quote: Aprelevna


well, guys, this recipe cannot be compared with the Greeks resting
Admin another thanks !!

Our took! Eat to your health!
julia_bb
Lovely Greek Salatos! I love these salads, I have to cook!
Admin

Julia, most importantly - as Homer wrote

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