Greek Pasta Salad

Greek Pasta Salad

This has been my first summer living in Raleigh, NC and man, has it been relentlessly hot. It’s been pretty much in the high 90′s since mid-June. So the summer I’ve been making a lot of light food like salads. Of course, now that I’m finally getting around to posting a salad recipe, it’s finally starting to cool down. But I think I would make this Greek pasta salad all year round since it keeps well and I can eat it for lunch or use as a side for dinner.

Greek Pasta Salad

Ingredients:
1 cup of macaroni or whatever small pasta you want
1 tomato diced
1 cucumber diced
1 small can of black olives (I think I only used about half the can)
1/2 red onion
feta cheese, crumbled (about 1/2 cup) I just eyeballed it

Directions:
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Cook the macaroni as according to the package. Once macaroni is cooked, drain and rinse with cold water til it cools down. When macaroni has cooled, transfer to a bowl. Mix with tomato, cucumber, black olives, red onion and feta cheese. Add lemon dijon vinaigrette and mix well.

Lemon Dijon Vinaigrette
Source: Foodnetwork.com

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
juice of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon of dijon mustard (you can use less or more depending on how much of the mustard flavor you want)
1 teaspoon of dill
salt and pepper to taste

Greek Pasta Salad