Entice your friends and family with this delicious and healthy Greek salad recipe made with fresh ingredients and homemade vinaigrette. It is sure to be a hit at any gathering.
You’re Gonna Love This Greek Salad
Learn how to create a delicious and traditional Greek salad, complete with tangy feta cheese and savory olives. This easy-to-follow recipe will have you feeling like you’re dining in Greece in no time.
This tasty salad is loaded with fresh vegetables like cucumbers, sun-ripened tomatoes, bell peppers, and red onion, combined with salty kalamata olives, capers, and feta cheese, and drizzled with a six-ingredient garlic vinaigrette. You are going to love this flavor combination and all the healthy ingredients. If you like this recipe, you will love Nicoise salad, tomato salad, and Panzanella salad.
Greek Salad Ingredients
You need olive oil, red wine vinegar, dried oregano, garlic, salt, and black pepper for the vinaigrette. For the salad portion of the recipe, you need English cucumber, tomatoes, bell pepper, red onion, kalamata olives, capers, feta cheese, and fresh mint.
How to Make Greek Salad
- Whisk all the vinaigrette ingredients together in a medium bowl.
- Slice and dice all your veggies and cheese. Add the cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, red onion, olives, capers, and feta cheese to a large bowl.
- Drizzle with the vinaigrette and toss to coat. Sprinkle with fresh mint. Season with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
Recipe Tips
- Prepare the vinaigrette up to 24 hours in advance and store it in a mason jar in the fridge. Remove the vinaigrette from the fridge for about 45 minutes before tossing the salad to bring it to room temperature.
- Other fresh herbs for this salad are thyme, dill, or parsley.
- To keep it fresh and tasty, purchase a small block of feta and crumble it or cube it. Goat cheese makes a good substitute.
- English cucumbers, also known as seedless cucumbers, are long, thin cucumbers with seeds that are so small they are hardly noticeable.
- If you are looking for a recipe to use up the rest of your capers, try chicken piccata.
What to serve with Greek Salad?
- Meat – grilled chicken, grilled pork tenderloin, or chicken shawarma
- Bread – warm pita bread, no-knead bread, or beer bread
- Seafood – air fryer salmon, grilled shrimp, or seared scallops
- Soup – gazpacho, avgolemono soup, lemon chicken orzo soup
Greek Salad
Ingredients
Vinaigrette
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Greek Salad
- 1 English cucumber cut in half lengthwise and sliced
- 4 medium sun-ripened tomatoes
- 1 green bell pepper cored and diced into bite size pieces
- 1/3 medium red onion thinly sliced into half moons
- 1/2 cup pitted Kalamata olives
- 3 tablespoons capers
- 8 ounce block feta cheese cut into bite-size pierces
- Fresh mint
- kosher salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a medium bowl whisk the olive oil, red wine vinegar, dried oregano, garlic, salt, and black pepper.
- Add the cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, red onion, olives, capers, and feta cheese to a large bowl.
- Drizzle with the vinaigrette and toss to coat. Sprinkle with fresh mint. Season with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
Notes
- Prepare the vinaigrette up to 24 hours in advance and store it in a mason jar in the fridge. Remove the vinaigrette about 45 minutes prior to tossing the salad to bring it to room temperature.
- Other fresh herbs to use on this salad are thyme, dill, or parsley.
- To keep it fresh, purchase a small block of feta and crumble or cube it yourself. Goat cheese makes a good substitute.
- English cucumbers, also known as seedless cucumbers, are long, thin cucumbers with seeds that are so small they are hardly noticeable.
- If you are looking for a recipe to use up the rest of your capers, try chicken piccata.
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AJ
This was absolutely delicious and refreshing YUM!! Although I am not a big fan of feta, I love bell peppers and olives!
Tamara Andrews
This salad is so refreshing and delicious! What a beautiful summer salad…perfect alongside so many dishes!
Cindy
I love the salty, tangy flavor combination. This is a great salad
Beth Pierce
Thank you, Cindy! So glad that you enjoyed it!
Shelley L
This Greek salad recipe was absolutely delicious! I loved every bite. I love a good tasty salad more than enything. Thanks for the all the great recipes.
Beth Pierce
My pleasure, Shelley!
Catalina W
Your Greek salad recipe transported me right back to my holiday in Greece! The dressing was spot on, tangy with just the right amount of olive oil and oregano. I loved it.
Tricia
This is one of my favorites! I love all the flavor
Beth Pierce
Thank you, Tricia! We love it too!
Alexandra
This salad is my new favorite! Love all the freshness and the vinaigrette is so light and flavorful!
Karen W
I loooove this greek salad so much…It is so fresh and delicious…This will be on repeat here!
Erin D
I made this salad yesterday and it was satisfying. That left me craving for more! That’s why I’m making it again today!
Beth Pierce
I understand! It is one yummy salad!
Amanda T
Absolutely amazing salad, loved every bite!
April Westhaven
Delicious and easy – loved the flavors! This salad recipe is a keeper!