Recipe: Yummy Greek Pasta Salad

Greek Pasta Salad. 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! We've got kalamata olives, tomatoes, cucumber, and feta cheese, all tossed with pasta and a lemony dressing.

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. 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. You can cook Greek Pasta Salad using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Greek Pasta Salad

1. It's 1 cup of uncooked pasta.
2. You need 5 small of sweet peppers, chopped.
3. You need 1/4 cup of red onion, chopped.
4. You need 1/2 large of cucumber, peeled & chopped.
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of feta.
6. You need 7 medium of pepperoncini peppers.
7. It's 1/2 cup of kalamata olives.
8. You need 1 can of artichoke hearts, quartered.
9. Prepare 3 tbsp of olive oil, extra virgin.
10. You need 2 tbsp of red wine vinegar.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of dried oregano.
12. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
13. You need 1/4 tsp of garlic powder.
14. Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground black pepper.

Perfect for summer parties or potlucks! A classic in diners and on dinner tables, Greek salad's are filled with Mediterranean produce and flavors. 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.

Greek Pasta Salad instructions

1. Cook pasta as directed on package. Cool. Meanwhile, prep all your veggies, set aside. In a small bowl or jar with a lid; combine olive oil, red wine vinegar, oregano, salt & pepper. Whisk in bowl or put mid on jar and shake vigorously..
2. Once pasta is cool enough to handle, place in large bowl with the veggies, cheese, and dressing. Toss the pasta sauce until everything to coated with dressing..
3. This makes 5 one cup servings. 246 calories/7 grams of protein per serving..

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. A delicious and bright Greek-inspired vinaigrette coats this salad. Pair this delicious pasta salad with some marinated and grilled Greek chicken or Greek meatballs.