Greek Orzo Salad

Greek Orzo Salad is a great summertime or anytime salad. This salad is made with orzo pasta, marinated artichoke hearts, black olives, cherry tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, sliced red onions, feta cheese and a bottled Greek salad dressing. Greek Orzo Salad is fast and easy to prepare when using convenient supermarket ingredients. This salad is ready to bring to a picnic in under and hour.

 

greek orzo salad

Green Goddess Dressing

This delicious pasta salad can also be made using a Green Goddess Salad Dressing. A salad dressing that has been around for many years but seems to have been somewhat forgotten about over the last 25 years. This dressing was created in the 1920’s by the chef at San Franciso’s Palace Hotel in honor of the actor George Arliss, who was appearing locally in a play called “Green Goddess”

Orzo

The classic green goddess dressing is a blend of mayonnaise, tarragon vinegar, anchovies, parsley, chives, tarragon, scallions and garlic. In addition to dressing salads, green goddess dressing is often used as a sauce for fish and shellfish. Orzo [OHR-zoh] is Italian for “Barley.” Tiny, rice-shaped pasta used in soups, salads  or served with sauce.

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greek orzo salad

Greek Orzo Salad


Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups
    uncooked orzo
  • 1 (12 oz) jar
    marinated artichoke hearts, drained
  • 1 (2 oz) can
    black olives, drained
  • 12 to 15
    cherry tomatoes, cut in half
  • 1/2 small
    cucumber, peeled, seeded and quarted
  • 1/2
    small red onion, diced
  • 1 cup
    crumbled feta cheese
  • 1 to 2 cups
    bottled Greek salad dressing (Kraft)

Cooking Directions

  1. Cook orzo pasta according to package directions. Drain and rinse under cold water.
  2. In a large bowl combine all ingredients. Toss together.
  3. Cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate 1 to 2 hours, add more dressing if necessary.
  4. Serve.

greek orzo salad

For this recipe, we used Mezzetta olives.