This quick-and-easy Greek Pasta Salad with zesty Greek lemon dressing, fresh veggies, and hearty tortellini pasta will soon become your go-to potluck and dinner side dish!
If you’re looking to switch up your potluck game, try this Mexican Street Corn Chicken Pasta Salad, Strawberry Avocado Chicken Pasta Salad, and Pesto Chicken Pasta Salad.
This salad is honestly so darn easy to whip up in just fifteen minutes, and it’s so much more than a side! I love it straight-up and totally meatless BUT it’s so easy to grill some chicken and add it to make it more of an entree salad. And the flavors? OUT. OF. THIS. WORLD! The combination of all the vegetables along with the tortellini pasta and the dressing! A little sweet, savory, and tangy, plus the herbs and the secret ingredient: Dijon mustard. Just a tablespoon kicks this dressing up to a whole other level of YUM.
You can easily swap in or out any of your favorite vegetables here. Don’t be afraid to trade the artichokes for roasted red peppers, or add extra feta cheese — the possibilities are endless.
Why This Recipe Works
If you need more reasons to make this dish, check this out!
Store-bought tortellini — whether you choose to buy dried pasta and cook it or toss in already-cooked pasta, the key here is to let someone else do the hard work of making the pasta and you just sit back and enjoy their efforts.
Swappable veggies — Take out what you don’t like and add what you do! It is really that easy!
Make ahead — Whether you eat later at your house or are taking this Greek salad to a potluck, you can make this dish the night before and it’ll still taste great!
Dressing — The Greek salad dressing just makes this dish. The flavors of vinegar, garlic, tons of herbs, plus Dijon and a dash of sugar and half a lemon make this tortellini salad simply bursting with mouth-watering flavor!
Here’s How You Make It
Making the dressing
Preparing the pasta and putting it together
Ideas for Customizing This Dish
What’s Inside Tortellini?
Tortellini is a stuffed pasta. Originally filled with meat and cheese, now you can find these little pasta pillows refrigerated, frozen, and dried with so many different fillings — from cheese to lobster.
Are Ravioli and Tortellini the Same?
Ravioli is made from two layers of pasta with a filling in between. They are generally in a round or square shape.
Tortellini is made from one sheet of pasta and folded up in a roughly triangular shape. It’s similar in looks and shape to a wonton wrapper. It’s also stuffed with a variety of ingredients, but primarily cheese.
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Greek Tortellini Pasta Salad
- 1 pound cheese tortellini pasta – (either fresh, or dried – cooked according to package’s instructions)
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes – halved
- ½ red onion – diced
- 1 large cucumber – peeled and chopped
- ½ cup canned artichoke hearts – roughly chopped
- ½ cup kalamata olives – (whole or sliced)
- ½ cup crumbled feta cheese – (I use reduced fat)
- ⅓ cup packed fresh basil leaves – finely chopped
Greek Dressing
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