Couscous Greek salad with home-made dressing is a delicious, filling and easy to make summer salad packed with healthy goodness. Made in just 20 minutes!
Look no further for a taste of the Mediterranean than with this simple couscous Greek salad!
With a 3 ingredient "shake up in a jar" dressing you've got fantastic tangy flavours to go with it too.
The sweet sharpness of the dressing really enhances the freshness and taste of the salad ingredients.
I've based this salad on a traditional Kalamata Greek Salad with the exception being that I couldn't get Kalamata Olives.
If you can get them then great, but black olives from a jar (which is what I used) will work well too.
Also I say BASED on a Kalamata Greek salad (before I'm leapt upon by our Greek friends) as that wouldn't normally have couscous in it. I've added that to bulk it up and make it a perfect all in one quick healthy meal.
The couscous doesn’t require any physical cooking, just a few minutes to "self cook" in some boiled water. Whilst that's happening you can chop up all your salad ingredients at the same time.
So this really is a perfectly simple quick healthy meal to put together which is ideal for lunch, packed lunches and /or for dinner!
I've based the dressing on a favourite simple red wine vinegar dressing recipe that I like.
This dressing isn't in any way mandatory if you don't have red wine vinegar to hand though.
You could just drizzle the salad with a little good quality extra virgin olive oil instead.
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Couscous Greek Salad With Home-Made Dressing Recipe
This super easy Greek salad is excellent for a work packed lunch. It won’t leave you hungry like some salads do!
I’d love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Couscous Greek Salad With Home-Made Dressing Recipe
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Ingredients
Home-Made Dressing: -
- 2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 garlic clove crushed
- Freshly ground salt and pepper
Couscous Greek Salad :-
- 100 g Couscous
- 2 large ripe tomatoes diced
- 2 inch piece of cucumber sliced then quartered
- ½ red onion thinly sliced
- 16 Black olives from a jar
- 75 g feta cheese crumbled
- 2 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
Instructions
Home-Made Dressing: -
- Place red wine vinegar, olive oil and garlic into a jar with a lid and shake well.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Couscous Greek Salad :-
- 1) First cook your Couscous by placing it in a bowl and pour freshly boiled water over it, covering roughly 1cm / ½”. Stir and cover with a plate and set aside for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, use a fork to fluff up the grains and set aside to cool.
- 2) Combine the cooled couscous, tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and olives in a large bowl.
- 3) Add the red wine vinegar dressing and combine with the salad.
- 4) Divide the couscous salad between two serving plates and crumble the feta cheese over and garnish with the chopped parsley.
Susie @ Suzlyfe
I LOVE greek salads, even though I"m not huge on feta and cheeses, and you know I'm weird about dressings. I would take this sans dressing (well, maybe some on the side) and a biiiig spritz of lemon, and I would be forever happy!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I'd be happy eating Greek salads for breakfast, lunch and dinner Susie!
I would be great if Scotland could have more weather like Greece too, ha ha!
Yep, just a slice of lemon squeezed over the top of this salad tastes brilliant too. Have a great weekend! 🙂
David @ Spiced
This sounds incredible, Neil! I love a good Greek salad, and the idea to switch it up and serve it over couscous is super fun. 🙂 Plus, I love feta cheese + olives. Pile up the toppings on this one for me, my friend! Also, this would indeed make an excellent work lunch. You can make a huge batch on Sunday and then work on it throughout the week. Yum! And those food festivals sound fun, too. Actually, just being in Scotland sounds like fun. You have such a great country, and I'm more than a little jealous that you will be in Edinburgh this weekend! Hope you all have a great time!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks David. I think I might just take you up on your suggestion of making a huge batch on Sunday and working on it through out the week. After I've finished working in Edinburgh next week I'm back to Glasgow and will be having some late nights finishing the project, so good shout!
I hope to get some pics this weekend of the food festival and if I do I'll share them next week. Take care and the three of you have a great weekend! 😀
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I used to LOVE couscous, something I totally miss!
My mom is a huge fan of kalamata olives, but I'm more of a classic black olive girl, myself 😉
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I can understand you missing couscous Rebecca with your gluten intolerance, I'm really sorry about that. I haven't tried this with quinoa, perhaps it might work with that as a substitute?
I think I'm with your mum regarding the Olives I'm afraid. 😉 Have a great weekend!
Ushmana Rai
Hi Neil,
Fun fact: I just came back from Greece and there I've tried the actual Kalamata Greek Salad. Believe me, it was absolutely delicious and I was planning to do it on my own. However, just like you, I couldn't find any Kalamata olives, but thanks to this recipe, I might have found the winning formula!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks so much for your comment Ushmana. 🙂
Hope you enjoy this salad as much as we do.