Greek Pasta Salad. Let Our Collection Of Easy & Simple Recipes Guide You In The Kitchen. Browse Now This pasta dish has all the refreshing flavors of a classic Greek salad with tomatoes, cucumber, olives, and feta cheese. Imagine all the flavors of a Greek salad, but with pasta!
This Greek Pasta Salad is light and fresh, loaded with garden tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers tossed in a homemade Greek dressing with Kalamata olives and Feta cheese. Perfect for summer parties or potlucks! Greek Pasta Salad is an easy side, perfect to prep ahead and a hit at every party or potluck! You can have Greek Pasta Salad using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Greek Pasta Salad
- Prepare 12 oz of box Tri-Color Rotini pasta (uncooked).
- It's 1 bunch of Radishes.
- It's 1 medium of Cucumber.
- Prepare 2 1/4 oz of can Sliced Black Olives.
- You need 1 pints of cherry or grape sized Tomatoes.
- It's 8 oz of Crumbled Feta Cheese.
- It's of Greek vinaigrette.
- It's 1/2 cup of Lemon Juice.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of Olive Oil.
- You need 3 tsp of Oregano.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
- It's 1/2 tsp of ground Black Pepper.
Tender pasta, ripe juicy tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, feta cheese and olives are tossed in a Greek dressing for the perfect make ahead side dish. We often add grilled chicken to make it a complete meal. Taste the earthy flavors of the Mediterranean in every bite of this colorful summer salad. Tangy feta cheese, fresh mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and olives are tossed with spicy pepperoni and macaroni in an herb-infused vinaigrette.
Greek Pasta Salad instructions
- Cook pasta and drain. Set aside to cool. Do not overcook.
- Wash radishes thoroughly then halve and thinly slice about 3/4 cup or 5 radishes..
- Rinse, peel, halve and slice one medium cucumber. Approximately 2 cups.
- Drain and rinse can of sliced olives..
- Rinse and halve tomatoes..
- Very gently mix together rotini pasta, radish slices, cucumber slices, tomatoes, black olives and feta cheese (using clean hands works best)..
- In a separate bowl, mix together olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, salt and pepper. Pour the dressing on the salad and mix gently..
- Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour. Serve chilled..
For this easy greek salad recipe, you'll need the following ingredients: PASTA: for this pasta salad, we used tri-colored rotini pasta - it's the best kind! CHEESE: crumbled feta cheese really brings the textures of this pasta salad together. TOMATOES: cherry tomatoes are perfect for pasta salad! CUCUMBERS: make sure you cut up the cucumbers nice and small. Greek Pasta Salad is loaded with tomatoes, cucumbers, Kalamata olives, red onion, green pepper, and plenty of feta cheese.