Valentina Ablaev
A fresh greek salad is a summer staple, but nothing completes it like a homemade greek salad dressing. Our homemade greek salad is loaded with crisp vegetables and crumbled feta with this sweet and tangy vinaigrette made with the simplest ingredients.
Making a homemade dressing is the easiest way to level up a salad! We’ve never gone back store bought after we started making caesar dressing from scratch, and our homemade poppyseed dressing brings a unique kick to any simple salad recipe.
This simple dressing recipe takes your staple ingredients at home and turns them into a zesty, refreshing dressing! You can use it in your greek pasta salads, but before you know it, you’ll add it to all your favorite salads.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Cleaner ingredients. Packaged dressing is often loaded with preservatives and ingredients you can’t pronounce. This dressing is made with simple, fresh ingredients.
- Easy recipe. Making your own dressing is so simple, and it tastes far better than storebought.
- Authentic flavors. Thanks to this dressing, you can enjoy an entire meal inspired by greek cuisine!
Ingredients for Greek Salad Dressing:
Simple ingredients combine to make the perfect homemade dressing!
- Olive oil – is the base oil for this dressing! We recommend high-quality extra virgin olive oil.
- Fresh garlic – mince the garlic clove for a fresh boost of flavor.
- Lemon juice – brings flavor and acidity to the dressing.
- Dijon mustard – adds a great umami flavor to the dressing.
- Mayo – helps make the dressing rich and creamy.
- Vinegar – white or red wine vinegar will work for this recipe.
- Seasoning – a combination of salt, black pepper, and an italian seasoning blend.
See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and quantities.
Make Greek Salad Dressing from Scratch:
Numbered Instructions on how to make the recipe.
- To a dressing shaker, add all of the dressing ingredients. Shake thoroughly to combine. If you don’t have a dressing shaker, you can also use a bowl and whisk the ingredients together and store in a mason jar.
- Drizzle over your favorite salad and enjoy!
Expert Tip for the Perfect Dressing:
Because of the oil in this dressing, you may notice that the dressing will separate over time. All you have to do is shake it until it reaches the right consistency.
Serving Suggestions:
- Greek salad: Of course, you have to enjoy this homemade greek salad dressing over a simple greek salad. Loaded with feta cheese, olives, tomatoes, red onions, and crips cucumbers. However, you can use this incredible, tasty dressing in just about any homemade salad.
- Roasted vegetables: Drizzle this dressing over oven roasted vegetables for a flavorful side.
- Soup and salad: A salad like this is best complemented by a comforting soup. Our easy lasagna soup would make the perfect pair!
- Sandwich and salad: A grilled chicken sandwich is an easy and delicious sandwich recipe that will go perfectly with a greek salad.
Recipe FAQs
If you don’t have white or red wine vinegar, you can just use more lemon juice.
Although you can’t taste the mayonnaise, it adds a creaminess to the dressing, but you can absolutely remove it from this recipe.
Extra virgin olive oil is key for this dressing recipe.
Store & Reheat:
- Storage. Keep leftover dressing in the dressing shaker in the fridge for up to 3 days. Homemade dressing doesn’t last as long as store-bought, so we recommend using as soon as possible!
- Freeze. We don’t recommend freezing this dressing.
More Dressing Recipes:
If you enjoyed this greek dressing recipe, be sure to try our other popular homemade salad dressing recipes; here are some of our favorites:
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Greek Salad Dressing
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp dijon mustard
- 1 Tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp ground black pepper
Instructions
- To a dressing shaker, add all of the dressing ingredients. Shake thoroughly to combine.
- Drizzle over your favorite salad and enjoy!
Notes
- You can use red wine vinegar if you don’t have white wine vinegar.
- Because of the oil in this dressing, you may notice that over time, the dressing will separate. All you have to do is shake it until it reaches the right consistency.
- Storage. Keep leftover dressing in the dressing shaker in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Homemade dressing doesn’t last as long as store-bought, so we recommend using it as soon as possible!
