Basic Greek Salad Dressing Recipe

If you're going to take the time to make a proper Greek salad (horiatiki salata), with all of its delicious ingredients such as onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, and feta cheese, you need the proper dressing. Greek salad dressing doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming to make. You need the proper olive oil, which ideally should be Greek and extra-virgin, for starters, but at the very least, the latter—it will have much more flavor to it than regular olive oil.

This oil and vinegar-based dressing is quick, easy, and requires the most basic of ingredients. It will also bring a bit of Greek flavor to the simplest salads, such as romaine lettuce, spring onions, and fresh dill.

You can certainly make this dressing as written, and use it on a Greek salad to your liking, but there are other ways of dressing a Greek salad. The simplest of all methods involves merely a drizzle of Greek extra virgin olive oil and wedges of lemon on the side, and just squeeze to taste—and that hardly needs a recipe. However, for any salads with feta cheese, such as an authentic Greek salad, you could consider straight olive oil (with a little water). For salads with cucumber, try oil and vinegar.