Healthy Recipe for Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Cheese

This Healthy Recipe for Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Cheese is just 137 calories and packed full of flavor!

The greek pasta salad recipe comes with an easy greek dressing for pasta salad, so you can make your own dressing and save more calories!

You can make this feta pasta salad with gluten free pasta if you like. When we originally tested the recipe for pasta salads with feta, we used gluten-free pasta, and it’s just as good as rotini.

I love to make this easy greek pasta salad for potlucks and backyard barbecues. It’s vegetarian, so more people can enjoy it. Plus, it’s a “make ahead” dish and travels very well.

This Healthy Recipe for Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Cheese is just 137 calories!

Healthy Recipe for Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Cheese

This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make a homemade healthy greek pasta salad recipe.

From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card… You’ll find everything you need to make the best greek pasta salad in the sections below.

Don’t want to make your own greek salad dressing for pasta salad? Try this one… It’s all-natural and super yummy!

What You’ll Find in this Article:

• Greek Pasta Salad Ingredients (shopping list!)
• How to Make Greek Pasta Salad Recipes
• Healthy Recipe for Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Cheese (recipe card!)
• Nutrition and Calories in Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Recipe

Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.

Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this feta cheese pasta salad recipe to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.

Up next, a shopping list for this homemade pasta salad with kalamata olives (or black… both work!)

Greek Pasta Salad Ingredients

This healthy pasta salad recipe uses our best tips and tricks to cut calories and boost flavor. So you can enjoy this yummy cold pasta salad with feta, for 1/2 the calories!

Low Calorie Tips for Greek Pasta Dishes:

• Double up the Veggies… double up the veggies so you can have more pasta salad for less calories!
• Cubed Feta instead of Crumbles… the cubed feta adds more for the visual effect, tricking your brain into thinking you’re getting more cheese. When in fact 1 cup of cubed feta is less (in volume) than crumbled.
• Vegetable broth…. skip the oil in the dressing and use vegetable broth! More flavor, less calories!

Shopping List for Greek Pasta with Feta:

Greek Pasta Salad Ingredients:

• Tri-color rotini pasta (or gluten free)
• Grape tomatoes
• Cucumber 
• Cubed feta cheese
• Kalamata or black olives 

Greek Pasta Salad Dressing:

• Lemon juice
• Red wine vinegar
• Dijon mustard
• Oregano
• Salt and pepper
• Garlic
• Vegetable broth
• Red pepper flakes (optional)

Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this cucumber tomato feta pasta salad you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this greek salad feta pasta recipe can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.

Up next, a guide to making recipes for pasta salad with feta cheese…

How to Make Greek Pasta Salad Recipes

This feta and olive pasta can be meal prepped!

Here are our tips to meal prepping the tomato feta pasta salad recipe ahead of time…

Meal Prepping Tips for Healthy Pasta Salad Recipes:

• Make the pasta ahead of time, and place in the container you plan on serving the pasta salad in. Cover and chill until you’re ready to make the homemade pasta salad recipe.
• Add all the greek pasta salad dressing to a jar, cover, shake, and place in the fridge. Save space and place the jar of dressing atop the pasta and close it all up together.
• Get pre-sliced olives, they cost the same but you end up getting more in the jar! Saves you time AND money!

How to Make Greek Pasta Recipe at Home:

1. Cook pasta according to package instructions to al dente.
2. Meanwhile, add all of the Greek Pasta Salad Dressing ingredients together in a bowl or jar. Whisk or (if using a jar) cover and shake well.
3. Drain the pasta, rinse with cold water and set aside to cool completely.
4. Add the pasta to a large bowl, add tomatoes, cucumber, olives and 1/2 the feta cheese.
5. Pour dressing over and toss together until everything is coated in dressing.
6. Top with remaining feta cheese, cover and chill at least 30 -60 minutes before serving.
7. Add 2 tablespoons of water and toss together again before serving (the pasta will have soaked up the dressing).

Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!

Up next, a sharable recipe card for this healthy recipe for greek pasta salad with feta cheese…

Healthy Recipe for Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Cheese

This low calorie greek pasta salad recipe is easy and yummy! Best of all it can be meal prepped (see above in the “How to Guide”) and can be made low calorie (those tips are found in the “Ingredient” section).

This healthy pasta salad recipe travels well and is served cold. Making it perfect for potlucks, family gatherings, and backyard BBQ’s.

Nutrition and Calories in Greek Pasta Salad with Feta Recipe

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