Greek Salad
This Greek salad is easy to make and bursting with flavor. With only six ingredients – cucumbers, tomatoes, bell pepper, red onion, olives, feta – it’s one of the best healthy salad recipes.
There’s something quite lovely about simple, healthy salads. I’m all for microgreens, sprouts and unique ingredients, but when it comes to the best simple, healthy salad recipe I’m not sure this Greek salad can be beat.
Greek salads are veggie-packed and contain no leaves, which means you can easily make them ahead of time without the fear of wilting.
Even better is that all of the ingredients are sliced or chopped to about the same size and many of those ingredients you can meal prep individually ahead of time, saving you even more time in making this salad. Make sure to watch my Meal Prep for Summer video to see how I do that.
What Ingredients are in a Greek Salad?
The traditional ingredients in a Greek salad include:
- Cucumbers
- Tomatoes
- Bell Pepper
- Red Onion
- Olives
- Feta
In Greece you’ll most often find large tomatoes used, but cherry tomatoes or grape tomatoes make for easy dicing. And for the feta, make sure to opt for a quality block of feta. I highly recommend you don’t buy pre-crumbled feta, due to the anti-caking additives I mentioned on my Zucchini Fries recipes.
How to Make a Greek Salad
Once you’ve got your ingredients ready, it’s as simple as slicing and dicing them to about the same size. And large chunks are preferred over a fine dice. Then, drizzle your salad with a Greek salad dressing and give it a gentle toss.
If you’re looking for another Greek recipe to serve alongside this salad, I highly recommend my Grilled Chicken Souvlaki recipe.
How to Make Greek Salad Dressing
Greek salad dressings are just as easy as their namesake Greek salad recipes. With just a few ingredients including olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, minced garlic, Dijon mustard, dried oregano, salt and pepper. Make sure to check out my Greek Salad Dressing recipe.
Even though Greek salad dressings are simple and straightforward, often times you’ll find many in Greece simply drizzling olive oil and red wine straight on top of the salad. That’s my kind of method. And if you do that, then just sprinkle a little dried oregano on top and you’ll be good to go.
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For more delicious, healthy salad recipes
- Broccoli Salad
- Avocado Egg Salad
- Easy Cucumber Salad
- Shrimp, Asparagus and Avocado Salad
- Smoked Salmon, Avocado and Arugula Salad
Greek Salad
This Greek salad is easy to make and only requires six ingredients – cucumbers, tomatoes, bell pepper, red onion, olives, feta. It’s one of the best healthy salad recipes.
Ingredients
- 1 large cucumber, diced
- 1 pint grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 green bell pepper, diced
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup Kalamata olives, halved
- 4 ounces feta cheese, crumbled
- salt and pepper
- Greek Salad Dressing
Directions
- Add all of the ingredients to a bowl and stir to combine. Drizzle with my homemade Greek Salad Dressing.
Lisa's Tips
- Once made, this salad will last for up to two days in the fridge. Just store in a sealed container.
Nutrition Information
Yield: 4 servings, Serving Size: 1/4 of recipe
- Amount Per Serving:
- Calories: 257.8
- Total Fat: 21.7g
- Saturated Fat: 6.4g
- Cholesterol: 25.2mg
- Sodium: 481mg
- Carbohydrates: 12g
- Fiber: 3.3g
- Sugar: 6.5g
- Protein: 5.9g
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Is there a way to make this last longer? For someone who needs to meal prep each week, 2 days just doesn’t seem like enough time for the salad to be worth it for me!
If you hold off on the feta and dressing until serving, the rest of the salad will likely last up to 4 days. Then you could just top with the feta and dressing daily. :)