Easy 20 Minutes Greek Pasta Salad

Greek pasta salad is our go-to recipe for summer backyard BBQ or picnic potluck salad. It’s light, fresh, easy to make, and a healthy summer salad. With simple Greek salad dressing drizzled on it to lift the flavors.

Pasta salads are great for a light lunch when you want to eat something light, but hearty like Israeli couscous salad or try this flavor-packed pesto pasta salad. 

Why should you try this recipe?

1. This cold pasta salad is perfect for summer BBQ backyard parties, potluck, and picnics.
2. It is healthy, fresh, and has perfect seasoning.
3. Easy to customize and make it your own. Add any summer vegetables of your choice, including herbs if you like.
4. Upgrade this pasta salad with simple Greek salad dressing.

Ingredients

Step-by-step instructions

Step 1: Start by boiling a large pot of water. Once the water starts boiling add salt and cook pasta in boiling water.

Step 2: Cook until pasta is al-dente. Drain pasta and set aside.

Step 3: Whisk the dressing ingredients – Red wine vinegar, olive oil, Garlic, oregano, and lemon juice in a jar.

Step 4: All all salad ingredients to a large bowl

Step 5: Pour salad dressing and toss the salad.

Useful tips

1. Pastas small in shapes works best, like penne, farfalle, fusilli, tortellini or Orzo. Orzo Greek pasta salad is another delicious that you’ll love.
2. Use fresh vegetables for the best taste.
3. Do not use pre-crumbled feta. Buy good quality block feta and crumble or cut it just when you want to use it.
4. If you want to make the salad ahead and store it, make sure to finish this pasta salad within 4 days. Feta cheese will begin to taste weird when stored for longer even refrigerator.

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5 from 11 votes

📋Easy Greek Pasta Salad

Jyothi Rajesh

Greek pasta salad is our go-to recipe for summer backyard BBQ or picnic potluck salad. It's light, fresh, easy to make, and a healthy summer salad. With simple Greek salad dressing drizzled on it to lift the flavors.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine Greek, Mediterranean

Servings 4 servings

Calories 693

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 8 oz fusilli bucati pasta or rotini, farfalle, penne
• ▢ 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
• ▢ 1 English cucumber cut into half slices
• ▢ 1 red onion sliced
• ▢ 1 cup FETA cheese (use good quality cheese) cut into cubes or crumbled
• ▢ ½ cup Kalamata olives pitted and halved
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper or to taste

For red wine vinaigrette

• ▢ ¼ cup red wine vinegar
• ▢ ⅔ cup extra virgin olive oil use good quality oil
• ▢ 1 clove garlic minced
• ▢ 2 tablespoons fresh oregano (or) 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• ▢ 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Instructions

 

Cook pasta –

• fill a large pot with water seasoned with little salt and bring it to boil over high heat. Once the water is boiling, stir in the penne, and return to the boil. Cook the pasta uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the pasta has cooked through, but is still firm to the bite, about 9 ½ minutes (for bucati). Drain pasta and let it cool. (DO NOT OVER COOK PASTA)

Prep vegetables –

• while pasta cooks chop all vegetables.
• Whisk together the red wine vinegar, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, oregano. Set aside.
• Combine pasta, onions, tomatoes, cucumber, olives and feta cheese in a large bowl. Pour vinaigrette over the pasta and mix together. Cover and chill for 3 hours before serving.

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Notes

1. Pastas small in shapes works best, like penne, farfalle, fusilli, tortellini or Orzo. Orzo Greek pasta salad is another delicious that you’ll love.
2. Use fresh vegetables for the best taste.
3. Do not use pre-crumbled feta. Buy good quality block feta and crumble or cut it just when you want to use it.
4. If you want to make the salad ahead and store it, make sure to finish this pasta salad within 4 days. Feta cheese will begin to taste weird when stored for longer even refrigerator.

 

Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that the nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on the products used.

Nutrition

Serving: 0gCalories: 693kcalCarbohydrates: 54gProtein: 14gFat: 48gSaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 33mgSodium: 985mgPotassium: 413mgFiber: 5gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 528IUVitamin C: 14mgCalcium: 268mgIron: 3mg

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