This 15 minute Greek tomato cucumber salad is one of the best ways to enjoy all of the fresh tastes of summer! Use bottled red wine vinaigrette or we share the traditional Greek dressing below.
Our Simple Greek salad is so good!
If you're trying to get more Mediterranean recipes in your diet, eating a classic Greek salad when the weather starts heating up is probably one of the most common. It's easy, crisp, full of flavor, and super versatile!
We often add cubed roasted chicken breast to add more protein and to meal prep it for lunches. This recipe was also used in our Greek chicken salad bowls if you want to make the loaded version for dinner!
As written, our simple Greek salad recipe is low carb, gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar free, and keto friendly.
Ingredients for Greek Salad
- cucumbers - Persian or English
- grape tomatoes - cherry tomatoes would be great too
- red onion - thinly sliced
- kalamata olives - buying the olives without the pit makes this recipe easy.
- Feta cheese - we used small cubes. The authentic Greek way is to serve a large square of feta cheese on the top of the vegetables. You can make this a dairy free recipe by using a plant-based cheese or even avocado cubes.
- green pepper - a different color of bell pepper would be fine too, using green bell peppers is traditional
- red wine vinegar dressing or see our note below for the traditional way!
- dried oregano or fresh
- fine sea salt
Traditional Greek salad simply drizzles red wine vinegar and olive oil over the vegetables, our version uses red wine vinegar dressing but the authentic version can be made instead.
Recipe for Greek salad
- Prep the cucumber tomato salad ingredients by slicing the onions, cucumber, and green pepper. You can leave the grape tomatoes whole or if you're using regular-sized tomatoes instead, cut them into wedges.
- Add all of the vegetables to the bowl, including the olives.
- Drizzle with the red wine vinegar dressing, dried oregano, and sea salt OR go traditional Greek style and drizzle the salad with red wine vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, and the dried oregano. Stir to combine.
- Sprinkle with feta cheese cubes before serving. Enjoy!
Recipe notes
- If you are meal-prepping the salad to enjoy later in the week, do not add the red wine vinegar dressing until you are ready to eat.
- Give your salad a protein boost by adding chicken, white beans, or quinoa.
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Recipe
Cucumber Greek Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup cucumbers sliced
- 2 cups grape tomatoes or sliced tomatoes
- ½ red onion thinly sliced
- 1 cup kalamata olives
- Feta cheese 8 oz cut into small cubes
- 1 small green pepper sliced
- ½ + cup red wine vinegar dressing store-bought or homemade
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
- DRESSING
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- If you're making our homemade red wine vinegar dressing, combine the olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, Dijon mustard, dried oregano, salt, and pepper in a small bowl. Combine. If you're using bottled dressing, skip this step.
- Prep the cucumber tomato salad ingredients by slicing the onions, cucumber, and green pepper. You can leave the grape tomatoes whole or if you're using regular-sized tomatoes instead, cut them into wedges.
- Add the cucumbers, tomatoes, and kalamata olives to a bowl. Drizzle with the red wine vinegar dressing, dried oregano, and sea salt and combine the ingredients together. Sprinkle with feta cheese cubes before serving. Enjoy!
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Notes
- Sprinkling the feta over the top of the salad at the end or on the side makes it easy to serve this as a dairy-free option.
- The feta can be cubed or served in large squares on top (which is the authentic Greek way).
- Traditional Greek salad drizzles the salad with red wine vinegar and olive oil, our version uses red wine vinegar dressing but the traditional version can be made instead.
- Other variations include mixing in cubed pre-cooked chicken, avocado, or cooked quinoa.
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