Zesty Greek Pasta Salad

Submitted by Katzen

"Greek Pasta Salad with a creamy, garlicky dressing, and crunchy vegetables. Gets better after the flavours mingle for a day. Keeps several days in the fridge - I make it on Sunday for lunches for the week."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• Dressing

• 236.59 ml olive oil
• 59.16 ml white wine vinegar
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 6.16 ml dried oregano
• 295.73 ml crumbled feta cheese (with herbs, if possible)
• 315.37 ml milk (or buttermilk)
• ground black pepper, to taste

• Salad

• 453.59 g penne pasta (or any other chunky pasta)
• 1 red pepper, chopped
• 1 yellow pepper, chopped
• 1 orange bell pepper, chopped
• 946.38 ml cherry tomatoes
• 1 red onion, chopped
• 1 English cucumber, chopped
• 118.29 ml kalamata olive, sliced and pitted (more, to taste)

directions

1. Combine dressing ingredients, and use blender or immersion blender to combine.
2. Cook pasta, drain, and rinse.
3. Add dressing and salad ingredients; toss well to coat pasta and vegetables.
4. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Reviews

[JackieOhNo!]

This is truly a delicious pasta salad that I made exactly as posted, including the herb-flavored feta. I made this a day ahead, and then brought it for lunch. The flavors really had time to marry well. I will be enjoying this again. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Charlotte J]

I put a lot of love into making this salad and was well rewarded. The prep time was longer for me as I cut all the veggies into very small pieces. You can see in the photo, before the dressing was added, just how small I cut them. I used my blender to make the dressing. Upon removing the lid of the blender, you are hit with the aroma of the garlic. Yum!! I used 6 outer cloves which were very large. So if you are not a garlic lover, you may want to cut back on the garlic. Made for *Please Review My Recipe Tag Game* from March 26th 2010