Greek Pasta Salad – Freaking Easy Recipe

This Greek pasta salad with homemade Greek dressing is loaded with tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, and olives. It’s perfect for all your spring and summer gatherings!

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My family is already obsessed with my Italian pasta salad, so, when I decided to make a Greek pasta salad, I knew they would love it as well.

Plus, this recipe couldn’t get any easier, and you know how I feel about easy recipes. Simply boil, dice, blend, and chill. BAM, done.

Here are all the tools I recommend using to make this recipe even easier.

Greek Pasta Salad Tools:

1. Deep Colander – Having a deep colander allows you to properly shake out the excess water after draining and rinsing your pasta
2. Mandoline Slicer – This handy tool is great for so many recipes! I love using it to slice my cucumbers since I’m not that great at getting them uniform
3. Salad Dressing Shaker – Best tool ever for homemade Greek dressing, or any dressing! Just toss in all your ingredients and give a good shake.

Cooking the pasta takes longer than anything else in this recipe. Make sure you set your pot of water to boil first thing.

Next, you’re going to want to take advantage of the 500 million minutes it takes for the water to boil and the 7 minutes for the pasta to cook.

Tip – Give Your Greek Pasta Salad A Quick Stir Before Serving

This is the perfect time to dice up all your veggies.

Now, after you get those veggies diced and olives drained, get started on the dressing.

When I say you need a shaker bottle for this, listen up. No one, and I mean no one, wants to whisk oil in a bowl.

Especially if you’re prone to getting food all over yourself like I am. I don’t need the help of a whisk, thank you very much.

Do yourself a favor and use a salad dressing shaker bottle. Just make sure the lid in on tight.

Greek Pasta Salad Recipe

Greek Pasta Salad

This Greek pasta salad with homemade Greek dressing is loaded with tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, and olives. It's perfect for all your spring and summer gatherings!

15 minPrep Time

7 minCook Time

22 minTotal Time

Author:

Rachel Willis

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Ingredients

Greek Pasta Salad
• 1 pound box bow tie pasta, uncooked
• 1/2 of a large English cucumber
• 1 Cup diced red onion
• 1 Cup diced red bell pepper
• 1 Small can sliced black olives
• 1 Cup Feta cheese crumbles, about 6 ounces
• 1 Cup salad tomatoes
Greek Dressing
• 1/4 Cup red wine vinegar
• 1/2 Cup olive oil
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano

Instructions

Pasta Salad
1. Cook pasta al dente according to package instructions
2. While pasta cooks, prep vegetables
3. Slice cucumber, then cut slices into quarters; put in large bowl
4. Dice red onion and bell pepper; add to cucumbers
5. Cut salad tomatoes in half and add to cucumbers, onions, and bell pepper
6. Drain olives and add to other veggies
7. Add Feta
8. When pasta is finished cooking, drain in colander
9. Rinse with cold water to stop cooking process; drain well
10. Add pasta to veggies
11. Top with Greek dressing and mix well
12. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight
13. Stir before serving
14. Serve cold
Greek Dressing
15. Combine all ingredients in a salad dressing shaker
16. Mix well

Notes

Using a mandoline slicer makes it easy to get uniform cucumber slices and is great if you are prone to cutting yourself with a knife like I am!

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Amount Per Serving
• Calories 3166
% Daily Value*


• Total Fat: 149 g 229.23%
• Saturated Fat: 37 g 185%
• Cholesterol: 133 mg 44.33%
• Sodium: 1399 mg 58.29%
• Potassium: 738 mg 21.09%
• Total Carbohydrate: 370 g %
• Sugar: 35 g
• Protein: 81 g
• Vitamin A: 106.88%
• Calcium: 841 mg 84.1%
• Iron: 18 mg 100%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.




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