Refreshing Summer Greek Pasta Salad Recipe

Get ready for summer with our vibrant Greek Pasta Salad! In this video, we’re tossing together a fresh, flavorful classic that’s perfect for your 4th of July gatherings or any sunny day. Packed with crisp veggies, tangy feta, and a zesty homemade dressing, this crowd-pleasing dish is as delicious as it is colorful. Bonus points if you use homegrown vegetables from your garden! Easy to make and ideal for feeding a crowd, this salad will be the star of your summer table. Enjoy the season and savor every bite!

Ingredient List:
16oz Pasta (we used rotini)
1 English Cucumber (regular cucumber could be too watery)
1.5 Cups Cherry tomatoes (quartered)
1 Bell Pepper (diced) we used orange for color
.5 Cups Sliced Kalamata Olives (you can use black olives if you don’t like Kalamata olives)
.5 Cup of Feta Cheese
.5 a Red Onion (diced)

Dressing
1/4 Cup Red Wine Vinegar
1/3 Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil (you can use Regular but Extra is better)
1tsp Garlic Powder
1tsp Oregano
1tsp Italian Seasoning
1tsp Thyme
1/2tsp salt and pepper (or to taste)

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welcome to the Jolly Rodger my name is Chef Brian this is my wife Chef Lynn and today we’re going to do a Greek pasta salad with the upcoming holiday it’s going to be perfect to bring for your gathering and can feed a lot of people so I’m going to show you the easiest way to make pasta so we’re just going to put it in our Insta Pot and that’s one box which is 16 oz so one lb and then we have four cups of water and we’re going to just pour that in now you don’t have to use water you can use um chicken stock which we’ve done plenty of times but for this dish I’m just leaving it vegetarian do what you just want normal noodles yeah just normal noodles but what I’m doing right here is I’m just making sure that all the noodles are actually touching the water we call that iceberging the little pizzas that are popping up as long as they’re part of it touching the water you’re good so we’re going to close it we’re going to put it into ceiling and pressure cook and this pasta is from 10 minutes to 12 minutes as your al dente and so we’re going to cut that head in half so I’m doing 6 minutes so we’ll take the later number the 12 and we’ll divide it by two gets six and then this will go for 6 minutes as soon as it’s done uh your last beeping then we’re going to go ahead and vent your uh your vent on top and that way it’s not sitting in that hot moisture because it will um start to you know overcook and get mushy mushy mushy nobody likes mushy pasta so while we are waiting on the pasta to get going Lyn’s going to show us how to do the dressing okay so what is it called it’s called a vinegrett greek vinegarette um you can buy your own or you can make your own so we have 1/3 of a cup of olive oil is that extra virgin or just regular olive oil it’s extra virgin good by the way you never want to cook with extra virgin olive oil it’s supposed to be meant to eat raw and it’s a four of a cup of what is it called red wine vinegar yep red wine vinegar man I’m Johnny on the spot i know and we’re doing a vinegaret which is a temporary emulsion whereas like mayonnaise is a permanent emulsion and then we have a you tell them what we have in there we have oregano we have thyme we have Italian herb salt pepper and garlic garlic powder by the way you notice I did not salt the water for the pasta that’s on purpose because you can overs salt it since it’s in this way being cooked this way and we can always add salt later just a tip [Music] all right now we just put it to the side as far as our ingredients go we have an English cucumber I cut into quarters i diced a red onion thing about red onions they’re meant to eat raw as well so you don’t really cook with those and I did a bell pepper diced that up and I have some uh quartered cherry tomatoes which all of these if you have a garden this will be a perfect dish to utilize what you’ve gotten that you’ve grown and uh then I have kamala olives which I only have a little bit cuz I’m the only one in the house that likes them so I’m going to add those too strictly my dish only and then we have feta cheese but this is not just strictly feta by itself but it’s a garlic and herb feta and then we saw it at the store and decided to give it a try yeah and we had it left over so we decided to make pasta salad with it sorry I feel like I’m going to sneeze this might keep going okay well let’s just wait for the noodles to be done okay our timer is done and uh if you have it left in there for like five more minutes it’s going to be fine but we’re just going to do our venting process i use a spoon for it not my hand because I don’t want to get burned but that’s it let that go for a minute see you in a second they sell those little It’s spitting if that ever happens throw a towel over it this towel is going to be hot cuz all the steam that does happen sometimes so just have a towel ready to do that when we do our um baby back ribs it baby back big baby back baby back ribs spills out and Yeah bubbles over all right [Music] perfect so now we are going to drain our pasta and then rinse it with cold water all right so we got our rinsed pasta right here so we’re going to start adding all of our ingredients and then we’ll give it a good stir and then we’ll add in our dressing i’m leaving the tomatoes out until the very end cuz they’re fragile and I don’t want them to get busted up all right red onion and then our cucumber and then I’m going to start cuz it the bowl’s getting full and Lynn’s going to break up the feta cheese because she’s not a big fan of feta we’re just going to rotate and we’re leaving out the olives for right now too yeah the olives are mine so they’ll go in my bowl which that’s going to be my bowl cuz it’s big we’re going to put the dressing in i’m going to leave it just like that okay okay get over here and do your job boy yes ma’am [Music] nice very nice all right we’ll give that a stir very gently we should have used a bigger bowl make sure all those spices and Well they’re not the herbs the herbs the herbs as some people call them [Music] pretty sure that’s a European thing and then lastly our tomatoes and then we’ll speed this up but it’s super colorful dish and it’s great for summertime everything’s so fresh now it’s perfect for the Fourth of July feeds a lot of people and it’s very very tasty and simple and simple it’s not like rocket science you know i’m glad I don’t do rocket science stuff it’s a lot of math which I do like math though well there you have it that’s our pasta Greek pasta salad for the summertime it’s perfect summer dish it’s nice and cool and we’re going to go ahead and give it a try try to get everything except the olive except the olive [Music] mhm that was just the right amount of salt mhm told you it would be mhm don’t salt your pasta water for this one but anyway thank y’all for being here i hope you give this a try this season and um yeah like comment share subscribe and uh we’ll see you Friday and then jar oh yeah leave a comment if you want us to make cash and uh we’ll put you in the jar we still got Still got to do that pork chop yep just bought pork chops yesterday put them in the freezer i think that’s going to be Friday’s video 99% positive anyway see you peace how do you say it dressing that’s what I didn’t said dressing dressing you’re leaving oh it’s okay took me years to get rid of my accent at least I don’t sound like my you know relative the Yankee talk hopefully no one wants this yeah Sarah hi hey and then we wait for our pasta and then we’re going to mix all the ingredients together speaking of which we have an English cucumber bless you thank you let it out no I can cut it no you won’t no I won’t but I could doing a great job thanks it’s an avocado thanks well there you have it that’s our Greek pasta salad for the summertime what are you laughing at like boom all right fine let me redo that sorry made me look like an idiot you don’t need help babe like I’ve been doing all this stuff and you have one job you know what i know where you sleep most of the time all the time i took naps on the couch so I’m done with me next to you i love this pasta salad