Greek Tortellini salad made with cheese tortellini, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, red onion, feta cheese, and simple Greek dressing. This easy pasta salad is perfect for summer potlucks and barbecues.
Cheese Tortellini + Classic Greek Salad = Yum
June is here and that means summer is here. I know summer doesn’t officially start until later in the month, but I am ready! I am giving us all permission to start summer early. We kicked off our early summer by making a Greek Tortellini Salad for dinner. I love making pasta salads during the summer months and this one is already a favorite!
I love a good classic Greek Salad, but I also like to mix things up. Last year, I made a Greek Quinoa Salad and it has become a staple in our house. This year, I jazzed the traditional Greek Salad up by adding cheese tortellini to the mix. Josh loves cheese tortellini and was very happy my new salad creation.
Tortellini Salad Ingredients
To make this tortellini salad you will need:
- Cheese tortellini-you can use refrigerated, frozen, or even dried tortellini. Refrigerated or frozen tortellini is our favorite to use.
- Grape tomatoes-you can use cherry tomatoes too.
- Cucumbers-seedless cucumbers or regular cucumbers work well, use your favorite!
- Kalamata olives-make sure you buy pitted kalamata olives.
- Red onion-thinly slice the red onion.
- Feta cheese-you can buy a block of feta cheese and crumble it into the salad or buy pre-crumbled feta cheese.
- Greek dressing-this dressing is easy to whisk up and gives the salad great flavor.
How to make Tortellini Salad
I love making tortellini pasta salads because they are filling and easy to make. Cook the tortellini, according to package instructions, and add in tomatoes, cucumbers, kalamata olives, red onion, and feta cheese. Toss the salad with the simple Greek dressing made of olive oil, red wine vinegar, garlic, and oregano.
You can serve the pasta salad right away or chilled. This salad can be made ahead of time, which is a huge bonus. It will keep in the fridge for 2 to 3 days. I love making a big Greek Tortellini Salad so we can nibble on it for a few days. This pasta salad is always a hit at parties and potlucks. Everyone will beg you for the recipe!
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Greek Tortellini Salad
- Prep Time
- 10 minutes
- Cook Time
- 7 minutes
- Total Time
- 20 minutes
- Cuisine
- Greek
- Servings
- 8
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 1 20 ounce package refrigerated cheese tortellini
- 1 1/2 cups grape tomatoes cut in half
- 1 large cucumber chopped
- 1 cup kalamata olives pit removed and chopped
- 1/2 red onion chopped
- 3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
For the Dressing:
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook the tortellini according to the package directions. Drain the tortellini and rinse with cold water.
- Place the tortellini in a large bowl. Add the tomatoes, cucumber, olives, red onion, and feta cheese.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, garlic, oregano, salt, and pepper. Pour the dressing over the salad and stir until salad is well coated. Serve immediately or place in the refrigerator.
- Note-this salad will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Keywords
Greek pasta salad, tortellini salad
Tried this recipe for a “salad contest” at work – I won 3rd place! Great flavor, thanks for the recipe!
This recipe was absolutely fabulous! It was amazing simple and quick to make too. The taste was just fantastic!
Yay! Glad it was a hit!
Great for our potluck. Garnished with chopped parsley and additional feta. Everybody loved it. Pretty like the picture
Definitely making this again. Everyone raves for it.
Amazing, wonderful,make it alot
I love this dish! I’ve made it many times for family gatherings and parties with friends. It’s a hit every time!
The Greek tortellini salad was delicious!
This looks likes it has a lot of great flavor.
I added fresh Italian parsley and a few drops of lemon juice to liven it up a bit. Good!
Would it be ok to make this Greek tortwllini salad the night before or would you suggest making it the day I will serve it?
This is such a good recipe. I make it all the time for friends & family. It’s really great with the addition of capers too,
This was yummy (and easy to make). 🙂
This salad is so easy to make and is like my daughter said “so yummy” thank you for sharing.
We love this recipe I made it as directed and will make it again. It was easy and delicious! That’s a winner in my book! Thanks for the great recipe.
Just delicious. First recipe of yours I have made and was fantastic. Thankyou
A friend brought this salad to my house and then directed me to this website. I’ve made it a few time for events and it is always a HUGE hit. It’s so fresh and easy to put together and is absolutely delicious.
Very easy, light and healthy supper. I used pre-sliced kalamata olives and that reduced prep. We had some leftovers and refrigerated. The tomatoes lose all flavor after being refrigerated. Recommend using it all in one go.
Good morning, my name is Anna and I’m from Greece, I really like your site and I made the tortilla Greek salad. They came out awesome and I have a photo to upload to my facebook recipes and tips
Anna: why, then, did you give it only one star?
Oh, this looks fabulous!! I love the colors and the flavors of this salad! I could eat this salad all summer long -YUM!
Don’t care for feta cheese what else could I use.
Goat cheese! Fresh Mozzarella! Burrata!
Wow! Wow! This was delicious!!!
Oh my gosh Maria I made this a few weeks ago and it was so good. i felt like I was in Greece again eating at an outside cafe. The flavors are amazing and a wonderful heart healthy recipe. i will make it again this week. Thank you!
Very easy recipe. Instead of cheese tortellini, I used what I had in the pantry which was tomato with oregano purchased at Aldi. I figured the recipe had tomatoes and oregano, so the tortellini should be okay. It was delicious. Great combination of flavors and perfect ration of dressing to salad.
Glad you enjoyed the salad!
I’ve made this salad for 15 years. You’re missing the marinated prawns, Italian squash and all the herbs. You have a good starter though.
This was SO good.