Greek Pasta Salad. This pasta dish has all the refreshing flavors of a classic Greek salad with tomatoes, cucumber, olives, and feta cheese. All the flavors of classic Greek salad in a picnic-ready pasta salad! We've got kalamata olives, tomatoes, cucumber, and feta cheese, all tossed with pasta and a lemony dressing.
I add feta cheese and black olives to the medley before coating it with a speedy homemade dressing. 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! You can cook Greek Pasta Salad using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Greek Pasta Salad
- It's of box Tri-Color Rotini pasta (uncooked).
- It's of Radishes.
- You need of Cucumber.
- Prepare of can Sliced Black Olives.
- You need of cherry or grape sized Tomatoes.
- It's of Crumbled Feta Cheese.
- It's of Greek vinaigrette.
- Prepare of Lemon Juice.
- You need of Olive Oil.
- It's of Oregano.
- You need of Salt.
- You need of ground Black Pepper.
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. This GREEK PASTA SALAD is packed with all of my favorites: cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, olives, onions, and of course feta cheese! The simple Greek pasta salad dressing is made fresh with a bit of red wine vinegar and lemon juice so the flavors just pop!
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. A classic in diners and on dinner tables, Greek salad's are filled with Mediterranean produce and flavors.