Avocado Greek Salad & Greek Salad Dressing

Avocado Greek Salad & Greek Salad Dressing

Avocado Greek Salad with a Greek Salad Dressing is a family favourite side salad served with anything!

Avocado Greek Salad

A twist on the traditional Greek Salad! Normally, an authentic Greek salad does not contain avocado or lettuce, but consists of green peppers (or capsicum), tomatoes, cucumbers, feta, olives, and onion. In this house, however, we always add avocado. Avocado – on – everything – addiction. And why not?! It’s such a great addition, you’ll be doing it too!

My Big Fat Greek Wedding — BOTH movies — have been on daily rotation over here: after school and all throughout the weekends. MY CHILDREN ARE OBSESSED. (Send HELP!) Because of this obsession, this salad has been happening daily WITH EVERYTHING. Roast a lamb? Make Avocado Greek salad. Grill some chicken? Make a Greek Salad. Bake fish? Yeah, you guessed it. Greek salad. Don’t get me wrong, I’m NOT complaining. But it’s getting to the point I have olives growing outta my ears.

With all this Greek Salad making, and eating… and making, and eating again, I have to say what makes a good Greek salad even better is a dressing so full of flavour, you could drizzle it all over your meat like we do (and like I did here with this Greek Lemon Garlic Chicken Salad). It only takes a few ingredients that I bet you already have in your kitchen. Throw out your bottled dressings. No, seriously… go chuck them out. Once you realise how easy and fast it is to make your own, you’ll be giving the bottled stuff the flick.

What goes in a Greek Salad Dressing!

• Don’t have red wine vinegar? Substitute with lemon juice (FRESHLY SQUEEZED!)
• Garlic? YES. Just trust me.
• Dried oregano? Yes. In the seasonings section of your supermarket. GET ON IT.
• Want to bulk up your salad? Add lettuce (I love Romaine or Cos).

Looking for more Greek recipes? Try these:

Greek Chicken Potatoes (One Pan)

Greek Lemon Garlic Chicken Salad

Crispy Greek Lemon Smashed Potatoes

Easy Avocado Greek Salad

Avocado Greek Salad with a Greek Salad Dressing is a family favourite side salad served with anything!

For The Dressing:

• ¼ cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic ((or 1 large garlic cloves, minced))
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano ((plus extra to serve))
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

For The Salad:

• 1 large cucumber (, halved lengthways and sliced)
• 4 vine ripened tomatoes (, cut into wedges)
• 1 green pepper ((capsicum), deseeded and sliced)
• ½ red onion (, sliced thinly)
• 7 oz | 200 g good quality creamy feta cheese (, cubed)
• ½ cup (3 oz | 80 g) pitted Kalamata olives
• 1 large avocado (, diced)

1. Whisk together dressing ingredients in jug or jar.
2. Mix together all of the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Toss with dressing. Season with extra salt ONLY IF NEEDED (depending how salty your feta cheese is). To serve, sprinkle over extra oregano (optional). Serve with chicken, fish, lamb, beef, the options are endless!

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