This simple Greek salad with feta cheese is a classic, fresh, and satisfying salad that serves 2-4. I love it as a main-dish salad for one (with leftovers for the next day), or as an easy side when I'm entertaining. If you're looking for a smaller Greek salad recipe, you can also try this single-serve chopped Greek salad.
This Mediterranean Greek salad is the one salad I make more than any other, outside of a quick salad of greens. It's SO easy to make, with serious restaurant-quality vibes. If you're cooking for one, this salad keeps well overnight and makes great leftovers. Tip: the Greek salad dressing I use in this recipe pairs perfectly and works over basic greens too, if you want to keep things super simple.
A traditional Greek salad contains just a handful of ingredients besides the vinaigrette including chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, red onion, green pepper and feta cheese. I use all of these ingredients except the bell pepper to keep things as minimal as possible. (But feel free to add the green pepper too if you'd like!)
🌿 Ingredients
A couple of notes about feta cheese: Depending on where you're shopping, you might see options for buying feta cheese in brine, or crumbled feta that's not brined. Both work just fine; the brined feta that normally comes in one piece is the more authentic form for Greek salad (or Horiatiki, Greek "village" salad), but the crumbled form is often less expensive and works perfectly well too. I normally use crumbled feta since it also saves the step of chopping it.
Feel free to make either of these substitutions if needed:
- Cucumbers or tomatoes - substitute chopped green or red peppers instead
- Olives - feel free to leave out if you're not an olive fan, or use a different type if you can't find Kalamata olives (standard black olives work well too)
See recipe card below for exact quantities.
📖 Variations
There are endless ways you can add on to Greek salad or turn it into a whole meal on it's own by adding some extra ingredients or protein. Here are some of my favorites:
- Chopped Greek salad - if you'd like more of a regular chopped green salad but with Mediterranean flavors, toss in some chopped lettuce like Romaine or other greens
- Avocado - add some chopped or sliced ripe avocado over the top of your salad; this is one of my favorite add-ons!
- Chickpeas - add a cup or so of cooked chickpeas (garbanzo beans) before you mix everything together with the dressing
- Chicken - add some grilled chicken slices over the top of your salad
- Salmon - add some chunked, grilled salmon pieces over the top of your salad, or simply serve the salad alongside a grilled fillet of salmon
- Tuna - toss your salad with a can of drained tuna fluffed with a fork, or top with sliced grilled or seared tuna (my other favorite add-on)
- Shrimp - top your salad with freshly grilled shrimp, or use precooked shrimp and toss in with the other salad ingredients
- Kid friendly - add a little honey or agave syrup to the dressing; adults love this sweet variation too
Enjoy!
🍳 Recipe
Simple Greek Salad with Feta
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Place all of the dressing ingredients into a medium mixing bowl and whisk well to incorporate.¼ cup olive oil, ⅛ cup red wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard, 1 clove garlic, ½ teaspoon dried oregano, ¼ teaspoon sea salt, freshly ground black pepper
- Combine all of the salad ingredients and toss with dressing. If using crumbled feta cheese, sprinkle it on after mixing everything else together.1 English cucumber, 4 Campari tomatoes, ½ medium red onion, ⅓ cup pitted Kalamata olives, ½ cup feta cheese
- Serve immediately or let sit for up to 20 minutes at room temperature for flavors to meld.
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