Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad

When it comes to pasta salads, I am a little high maintenance. I want to have to play “hunt for the pasta among the vegetables” and that is why I bring you Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad today. Vegetable lovers rejoice!

This Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad is absolutely bursting with feta cheese and the freshness of baby spinach, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, Greek olives, and red onions all in a tantalizing garlicky herbed lemon Greek dressing. This is my idea of an excellent pasta salad.

Whip up a batch Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad to accompany a grilled dinner or by itself as a light meal, then enjoy the leftovers for the next few days… it keeps improving as it rests in the refrigerator.

Greek Pasta Salad

I prefer to use an assorted marinated olive blend for the olives in our Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad. If you can’t find those, pitted kalamata or oil cured olives will be delicious.

You can either use pre-crumbled feta or crumble your own feta and you can choose between plain feta or (as I did for this salad) Mediterranean herb feta. Many well-stocked grocery stores carry a few options. Play with it and choose which you like best!

For best results, cook the pasta to al dente rather than soft. The pasta will soak up the dressing as it rests and will soften more than is desirable if you begin with overcooked pasta.

Check out this handy trick to keep the raw red or purple onions from being too spicy or hot! It’s so easy.

First, slice the onions as thinly as you possibly can before adding it to the mixing bowl on top of the baby spinach. As soon as you’ve drained the hot pasta, plunk it on top of the sliced red onions and let it sit for 2 minutes then toss like you mean it. This will accomplish two things; it will remove some of the bite from the raw onions and it will gently wilt the spinach which is desirable in our Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad.

Don’t worry if it appears there’s too much dressing. Much of it will be soaked up by the pasta.

If at all possible, let the salad rest in the refrigerator for at least an hour prior to serving to allow the flavours to meld and marry. It is worth the wait if you can stand it.

Calling all pasta and potato salad fans! I have you covered in abundance for your summer salads! Check out our Salmon Pasta Salad, Potato Salad with Bacon, Spicy Bacon Cheddar Pasta Salad, Dill Pickle Egg Salad, Asian Pasta Salad, Easy Bacon Pea Pasta Salad, Loaded Baked Potato Salad, Easy Bacon Broccoli Pasta Salad, Bacon Horseradish Potato Salad.

Use these to make Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad

• mason jar
• chef’s knife
• cutting board
• mixing bowl
• sturdy spoon or spatula

What kind of dressing for Greek Salad?

This one is easy as can be. Homemade Greek dressing will always be best, especially when you use my recipe for Greek Salad Dressing.

Check out how easy it is to make Veggie Lover’s Greek Pasta Salad!

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