Big Fat Greek Salad - Food Wishes
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- Learn how to make a Big Fat Greek Salad! I can’t believe no one thought of this brilliant play on words yet! Okay, a few people did…like a thousand. Anyway, the point is this is one of the world’s greatest salads, and you should make it as soon as possible. Visit foodwishes.blogspot.com/2018/... for the ingredients, more information, and many, many more video recipes. I really hope you enjoy this a Big Fat Greek Salad recipe!
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Anchovies! you forgot the anchovies.
@@machetedonttweet1343 Most people hate anchovies.
nice video man , I like to serve it right away because the tomato starts to water so its a good idea to add the salt at the last minute if you want to keep it in the fridge , I just add olive oil and a tiny amount of balsamic vinegar , I don't like to add too much vinegar , I don't think acid goes well with milk products like feta so I only add a tiny amount , like 1 spoon
Dinner. Tonight!
"You are the Plato of when to plate bro"
That one was beautiful
Dear Chef John, I've just lost my father. You probably couldn't believe what a simple support you've been to me. More power to your elbow. Keep on feeding the hungry. From Ireland, Lewis
More power to you man
Thinking of you, Lewis.
May his memory be a blessing to you.
I'm so so sorry for your loss. :(
I just finished making a coddle for you
In Greece, we like our salad the same way that we like our debt: as BIG as possible.
BTW Chef John, capers are optional.
would it be a crime to omit the tomato?
Good to see Greek people haven't lost their sense of humor!
Yes Alex, you go to jail long time.
Feta Cheezz awww, I never developed a taste for tomato. I'll have to make a different salad then
Serial Snarker Alex
You can get away with omitting the tomato by appeasing the Greeks through rubbing your entire body in olive oil.
You can make the salad the way you want, Mediterranean salads mostly consist of chopping up what grows in your garden and throwing it on a plate with some other stuff you have laying around.
“Optional, but also mandatory.”
I have made this salad for years in the summer, but today I learned 3 new tricks. Same size veggies, salting and vinegar before oil. You are the best Chef John!
Anyone else notice that yellow pear-shaped tomato throughout the entire video? Just me? Oh okay. Lol!
BurningRamen it was beautiful, especially for it's finale! #canttakemyeyesoffofyou
That was the first thing I saw in the video
I had those in my garden this summer. Very yummy.
I like eating them fresh when they're slightly warmed by the sun.
I grew some one time in my garden they are really good taste like tomato candy.
Made this exact recipe about 3 hours ago. It’s perfection!! I did not change a thing. Highly recommend this Big Greek Salad. Thank you Chef Jon!!
A little tip I got from an greek chef, is actually to "marinade" the red onion in juice from half a lemon and 3-4 dl (I'm from Norway, believe it's 1,5 cup) of water, and let it be in the solution for 15-20 minutes. it realy makes a difference and take out the sharpness from the onion :-) Love your chanel !
Horiatiki, Chef John. Also - The Greeks like to use dry oregano and sprinkle it on large chunks of feta. The feta in Greece is sold in wood barrels and it's insanely good. Here's another food wish for the future - Dako salad.
With Chef John it's got to a point where whenever I see any other chef doing a video, I just feel like they have no idea what they are talking about.
I love that he teaches technique along the way, which is really more important than any recipe.
The best part of the greek salad is dip a nice chunk of sourdough bread in the leftover juices^^
Btw, I'm from Italy, and my grandma always ate something very similar as Summer dish, basically the greek salad without feta and bell peppers and with Tuna as main protein.
_You are, after all, the culinary ballad of your big fat greek salad!_
Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, feta cheese, olive oil, oregano (usually dry) is the basis.
Olives, peppers, vinegar are optional but very welcome.
Add in some crumbled rusks/crackers/sippets (paximadi in Greek) and you have a salad made in heaven. Quick, easy and delicious.
Not quite my tempo that’s good, I can’t stand olives. Blergh.
Well, that recipe does sound like my tempo!
Best wishes from Greece
@@happyspanners olives combined with feta is from other planet dude you should try it
I'm not a fan of olives. But I like to seed and slice a few pepperoncini and throw those in.
Brought this to a friend's house today and it was a hit! Left with an empty bowl.I used Roma tomatoes and crumbled feta. Also only had dried oregano, but it was still great. Chef John wins everytime!
Yay! Love Greek salad
I just wanted you to know, Chef John, that ever since I started watching your videos a few years ago, I have started making my own Cayenne pepper powder from my own recipe. I have never used it in my dishes before watching your video. Jump to present day, I am now fermenting batches of cayenne peppers for around 3 months along with various spices and garlic. Drying them out and pulverizing them into such a delicious "Shake of cayenne" I add to almost all of my dishes. Much respect, my man.
I love this salad. It is one of my favorites. (Although I like a little banana peppers and more cheese) Seeing it makes me miss one of my ex-girlfriends. We spent a wonderful summer together a few years back, attending music festivals and camping pretty much every weekend. She was Greek/Palestinian in heritage. I learned a lot that year and we had the greatest times.
I'm in my 60's and my simple eating go to's are relatively heathier and more easily digestible foods = salads, soups, stews, and chowders. thanks for this one Chef John 👍
We tried this recipe today and the family says it’s a keeper! Thanks for another great recipe 😋
I love Greek salad and never made one at home that I found satisfactory...now I don't have to go out. And BTW you don't know how good a Greek salad is until you reach the bottom and everything is melding together. Thank you Chef John!!
Chef John I love watching you everyday. You make cooking an art...thank you!
I love you Chef John!! I always learn so many things watching your videos, and I've been cooking for like 30 something years, and my mom was a Home Ec teacher, and so was my grandma. you're simply amazing!!! thanks again and again for all your help! xoxo
One of my favorite salads/meals/things ever!!! I Do not want wait to make this version!! Wow...simply delicious!
Thanks for this one Chef John! Wonderful!
I love that you end the videos with “as always, enjoyyyyyy” lol it makes me happy for some reason!!
This looks FANTASTIC! Yum!😀
You make everything so easy and understandable THANK YOU!
You are always my go to....love your recipes and techniques
I made this tonight. It was sublime. ♥️ Thank you for the recipe.
This salad looks gorgeous. Thank you for sharing another great recipe.
Perfect timing Chef. I was planning on making Greek salad for lunch next week.
Who the fuck plans lunch a week in advance? I don't plan food until 5 minutes after I'm hungry
Loved it. Thanks for sharing.
A Greek grandma that lived near me before used to replace some of the oregano with fresh dill, idk if that's a personal thing or what but it really tastes great too
Watched within the first 50 views! Love this channel and every dish you make!!
Just made this and it was a humongous hit. Adults and kids devoured it ❤️
This is amazing!!! I made it today. I added Garbanzo beans for some protein. The flavors and the texture is fantastic!!
TWO! Woah, is this unprecedented? I feel honored to be here with an unsung ballad, of your Grecian salad.
I love how you explain every step in a fun and natural voice. I want to eat healthier, hope this Greek salad is healthy. 😊
Chef John. I have just put this salad together, as well as cooked your roasted Greek chicken, minus the potatoes, and my GOD! Every bite is exploding with flavor! I’ll definitely be making these regularly for years to come. Thank you
So great. Thank you - I love this salad!
Looks Amazing!!! Love your videos!! 😁
I made this for family a couple of nights ago, fantastic salad, great combination of ingredients, red wine vinegar, olive oil, paprika just perfect!
I’ve always made this with salad greens, but this looks much better. Some beets, warm pita, and grilled chicken and it’s a meal.
Fantastic! Thank you!!
Love Greek salad also ad fresh lemon to mine. Like watching what you cook.
Joanne
I love your humor and love your channel!!!
Chef, I just made this beautiful salad. Thank you for the recipe. And yes, salting the cucumbers and letting them sit for a bit made a wonderful bit of difference.
Love your cooking 🤩
Chef 👨🏾🍳 John! That is beautiful!!! 🥗 I will be making it!!
Deliciouso! Thank you for sharing
“…while I did say this step was optional, it’s also mandatory.” Love it.
I made this for dinner tonight! adding leftover diced, grilled chicken & crusty croutons to soak up the yummy dressing was all it took to have an amazing main dish salad for a holiday weekend!
and the salad was best right after being made.
after all is said and done, this Greek salad is #1!
Chef - My only comment of a negative nature is - No gazpacho - One must enjoy a salad such as this with really good, rustic and crusty loaf od bread...Dipped INTO the sauce. AHHHH, one of life's joys........I really enjoy and learn from ALL your videos, so thank you, this too is another superb instructional and fun video.
It's making my mouth water!
Made this today. Delicious!
John, I made this as an entree salad for Saturday night dinner for my wife & I. We loved it and I think it renewed her love for me. ;-) Thanks, man.
I've been saying WOW a lot when I watch your cooking videos. But this salad watching ypu pit ot toogether rates another wow!
Amazing. Very tasty. Best Greek Salad I've ever tasted outside of Greece. 👍🏾👌
Looks wonderful!
Chef John as a Greek I should say that Greek "village" salad should be chunky and rustic and messy, like our economy. Love you chef John!
As a fellow Greek.... mwahahahaha! have a cookie παλικάρι!
U guys have the best humour, don’t you! 😂 💀
😂😂😂
@@skylar_kada you're welcome to join our madness sweetheart
I appreciate you Chef John
looks amazing. heres a nice tip, discard the middle part of the cucumber before dicing it up (its the softer part with the seeds), that way the salad becomes even more crunchy. thats how they do it in the restaurants in my country. also, refrigirate your vegetables before cutting, that way you dont need to let the salad rest in the fridge.
Great salad. Loved the fresh oregano in it. I didn't add any extra salt except for what I used to salt the cucumbers, and it was PERFECT. Thanks.
You are a rock star! I like the Greek recipes - a Mediterranean diet is a healthy one for us all. Thank you.
Beautiful! I love colorful food, that lets me know that it’s healthy - I tell those that are trying to improve their diet, the more colorful your food is, the more flavors you’ll have!!!
Love you chef 👨🍳
I watch this video 17 minutes after it dropped and have had this salad in my fridge ever since. It's become a staple of my diet lol.
I made this today and it was incredible!
Great video. Never knew about the salt and rinse trick for cucumbers. More salad videos please!
So colorful and fresh. I bet with the cucumber and vinegar, it smells great too! This is definitely one I'll be making at sone point.
I have been making this salad a lot since moving to Sweden because it is delicious and so easy to make and cheap ingredients. One thing I picked up was using feta that is marinating in oregano infused olive oil... You can always add more oregano if need be and if you add too much oil.. using citrus to cut through the thickness of the oil adds a really nice freshness to the salad. It is a huge hit for everyone that eats it.
My mom made this salad and it was absolutely delicious. I will ask her to make another one today.
Yummy! So good and so easy to make.
I learned a lot, thank you so much!
One of the best recipes I've seen on CZcams
I'm Greek and I make my salads almost exactly like this.... I prefer to only let it sit for about 5-10 minutes in the fridge and I use lemon instead of vinegar. It's also great to add quinoa (which is totally un-Greek, but really fantastic too :)
Perfect! Yummy!
It looks so good!!!!!!
Very colorful! ! Yum..
John you have me drooling 🤤
Thank you so much for the salad now I know what to bring to every party.
Dear Chef John:
1) I don't know if the English cucumbers are bitter but here in Drapetsona, Greece are sweet so we don't have to extract any of their juices. In the end we have more of the gazpacho-style juice and we use more bread (toasted of course) to clean the bowl.
2) I was expecting to add AND dried oregano! As you always say, it's totally another flavor. Actually, if some old Greek lady tells me that they used to dry the oregano just to put it on this salad, I wouldn't be surprised.
3-and most important) TOMATOES IN THE FRIDGE? Letting the salad 10-15' -outside the fridge- is the best you can do for all those flavors. But chilling the tomato? You'll end up with a beautiful Greek salad without its main ingredient!
(You know we love you - @Teletai_Mpouk)
Οι Τελεται Μπουκουρας βλέπουν τον Γιάνναρο;!
Εδώ και πολλά έτη. Ήγγικεν η ώραν όμως για ζεσθαθούν λίγο τα αίματα. Αρκετά με τα... ψυγεία!
What happens to chilled tomatoes?
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I don’t think it’s that they are bitter, but just full of water, and salting adds flavor while drawing out some of the water. Whereas eggplant may be salted to extract the bitterness, a little salting gives flavor and keeps the cucumber from making a lot of soupy liquid in the final dish.
awesome salad recipe
Yay Chef John!!!
What I learned from making this dish:
I like red wine vinegar. (I normally HATE vinegar.)
I learned what a pepperoncini was.
Never ever buy whole olives with the pit still inside.
I learned I can tolerate raw red onion a lot better than I thought. (I normally don't like raw onion AT ALL)
Thanks Chef John!
Nice twist.
Alternatively. In the classic Greek salad served all over Greece:
- vinegar is optional if not forbidden
- the feta cheese is served as a whole in top of the salad. This way you can see that it's actual feta cheese and not cheese barrel trimmings and leftovers. Furthermore you can set the feta aside and eat it separately because it can dominate the taste of the salad.
- Dry oregano.
- No cucumber drying through salting. We want the juices. Dipping fresh Bread in this salad's juices is half of the whole satisfaction.
- No black pepper in classic Greek salad.
- Don't cut to much olives especially when they are cured in brine with vinegar. It dominates the taste over the vegetables. Olives should few in numbers and not sliced.
- A lot of good quality olive oil. Hugely important. Preferably Greek extra virgin olive oil with low acidity.
Gotta love a new Chef John video!
“And while I did say this is part is optional it’s mandatory” lol I love your videos! And commentary!!
Mmmmmmmm i love salad and this looks soooo good
Man that looks wonderful!
I have only made like 2 or 3 dishes you have shown, but I still love watching your videos
My family loves it when I make his recipes!
Woww, gotta try this
I love the old salt and rinse. It’s my favorite way to eat cucumbers. We made the bread and butter pickles a few weekends ago and we probably ate half the cucumbers just plain salted.
This is gorgeous, chef!
μπράβο, chef John!
"Optional but mandatory!". Gotta love it. 😂
I've been eating this for 10 years and it's amazing! If I could I'd eat it every day :) Nice one Chef John
Chef John, in this recipe you mentioned the cucumbers being bitter. I had someone to let me know that if you cut both ends off of the cucumbers it takes away the bitterness rather than just cutting one end off. It worked for me even if I only use half of the cucumber I still cut the end off of the other half before storing it.