Greek Pasta Salad Quick And Easy To Make!
Greek Pasta Salad is the perfect side dish for backyard barbecues, picnics, potlucks, or other occasions. We love making it on hot days as a quick, easy dinner idea. We always get a late summer in California and honestly, it rarely cools down before late October, which makes this perfect as a dinner.
This never disappoints because it’s fresh, healthy, and great to eat anytime. Looking for other recipes to make? Check our Pasta Salad Recipes.
I don’t have any process shots of making this salad. Or maybe I do and just didn’t find them? But, you can see process shots in this Vegetarian Pasta Salad recipe, and I grabbed a related video to help you if you are just learning to cook. It’s with the recipe card below.
GREEK PASTA SALAD
Ingredients
- Spiral Pasta Noodles
(or) Rotini, Seashell, Chickpea Pasta, Penne Pasta - 1 can of Kalamata Olives
- Cucumber
- 1 Red Onion
- 2-3 Garlic Cloves
- 1 small basket of Cherry Tomatoes
- Italian Parsley
- Red Bell Pepper
- Feta Cheese(or) Vegan Feta Cheese
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How to make Greek pasta salad
- strain it.
- Add the crumbled cheese Feta cheese and mix it.
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Greek Pasta Salad Recipe
Greek Pasta Salad
Greek Pasta Salad is the perfect side dish for picnics, pot lucks or other occasions. We love making it on hot days as a quick, easy dinner idea. Delicious, healthy and fresh!
Ingredients
- Pasta Noodles 1lb. (such as Rotini, Seashells, Chickpea Pasta, Penne) Cook al dente
- 1 Small Red Onion (chopped into bite size pieces)
- 2-3 Garlic cloves (peeled and minced)
- 1 red bell pepper (seeded and chopped)
- 1 or 2 cucumbers (partially peeled, then sliced & cut)
- Italian flat-leaf parsley 1/2 cup (chopped fine or rough)
- 1 can Kalamata Olives (pitted) (optionally chopped)
- 1 small basket Cherry tomatoes or 2 regular tomatoes (cut up)
- Feta cheese - small container of crumbled Feta (crumbled)
Instructions
- Cook the pasta al dente, (use package directions for the noodles you purchased) rinse it with cold water and drain.
- Set the drained noodles to the side to finish cooling off, and until the other steps are finished.
- Chop all the vegetables.
- Add the chopped vegetables into a large mixing bowl or salad bowl.
- Then add pitted Kalamata Olives (I don't even chop the but, you can).
- Finally, add your drained, cooked and cooled pasta noodles.
- Add the crumbled Feta cheese.
- Mix together.
- Toss with your favorite Greek Salad Dressing (store-bought or homemade) right before serving.
Notes
- Sometimes when I have leftover corn on the cob I cut it off the cob and add it to my pasta salads. This is optional and not in a traditional Greek salad.
- I prefer red bell peppers but, you can use green bell peppers or even both!
- Rotini pasta, seashell pasta, chickpea pasta are all good choices. The key is making it al dente!
- Make this vegan by adding Vegan Feta Cheese.
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Nutrition Information
Yield
6Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 44Total Fat 1gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 4mgSodium 53mgCarbohydrates 7gFiber 1gSugar 4gProtein 2g
Not all nutrtional information is accurate.
PS. You can easily make this vegan by adding Vegan Feta Cheese
. And if you are looking for another dressing recipe you might like this; Homemade dressing (lemon vinaigrette dressing). Or pick from any of the homemade dressings in the salad recipes below.
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