Greek Zucchini Salad
This healthy Zucchini Salad is full of fresh Greek flavors and ingredients, and is a great side for chicken, lamb, steaks, and more!
Zucchini might possibly be the most versatile vegetable around. It’s one of my favorites, and you can do a thousand different things with it.
In this refreshing Greek Zucchini Salad, the zucchini is enjoyed raw. I know there are people who eat raw vegetables particularly for nutrition reasons, but honestly I love the texture and flavor of raw zucchini. It’s not harsh at all, and it actually absorbs the flavors of the salad in a wonderful way.
If you’ve never had zucchini like this before, try it! I think you might love it.
This raw zucchini salad isparticularly wonderful for picnics, potlucks, and parties in the summertime. Enjoy it on its own, or make a meal of it by adding a protein like Grilled Chicken Breast.
How to Make Zucchini Salad:
In a large bowl, combine diced fresh zucchini, feta cheese, red onion or shallot, parsley, kalamata olives, chickpeas, fresh lemon, olive oil, salt, and pepper all together:
If you need some guidance for how to cut the zucchini, here’s a post I did for How to Dice Zucchini.
Give the salad ingredients a good toss to distribute everything evenly:
Let it sit in the fridge for at least one hour, to allow the zucchini to absorb the other flavors, and soften ever so slightly.
I love this salad for entertaining, as it’s pretty sturdy, travels well, and tastes AWESOME as a side to chicken or fish.
This Zucchini & Arugula Salad is another way to enjoy zucchini raw, in shredded form, but if you’re more keen on cooked recipes, I recommend Zucchini Fritters, Zucchini Noodle White Lasagna, and Sausage Stuffed Zucchini Boats, just to name a few of my favorites.
For 60+ more zucchini recipes, scan through my Ultimate Guide to Zucchini post, which also covers how to pick good zucchini, how to store, and more. Enjoy!
Greek Zucchini Salad
Ingredients
- 4-5 cups diced zucchini from 1.5 lbs whole zucchini
- 4 oz crumbled feta cheese
- 15 ounce can chickpeas drained and rinsed
- 1/3 cup chopped kalamata olives
- 1/4 cup chopped shallot or red onion
- 1/2 cup chopped parsley
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper or to taste
Instructions
- Mix together all ingredients.
- Adjust seasoning as desired. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition is estimated using a food database and is only intended to be used as a guideline for informational purposes.
Post updated with new photos and writing in June 2018. Originally published March 2015.
36 Comments on “Greek Zucchini Salad”
Thanks for this unique recipe! Fresh, bright, and different. I subbed the feta for parmesan, parsley for dried oregano, and added some cherry tomatoes. Can’t wait to make again!
I made it for us a I had a big zucchinis I removed the seeds and added the ingredients. I was wondering if I could’ve added sun-dried tomatoes
I literally just threw this together as a bright side for a mushroom soup we’re having tonight and to use up an abundance of veggies from our garden.. And now instead of giving my children a bath or waiting until dinner, I have devoured a much larger than one serving portion. SO good and so easy. I’m excited to eat with dinner and for lunch tomorrow… if there are any leftovers.
Really delicious. Since I have a spiralizer I used it and cut the long strands with scissors. I also added some Greek oregano. Just a terrific summer salad!
Cheers!
This is delicious and so healthy!
How long can this be stored in the fridge?
Such a crisp, fresh, bright, beautiful salad! Perfect side salad to go along with grilled meats, moussaka, quiche, or served simply with lovely slice of garlic bread! Will make this salad again and again! I did not have kalamata olives so I used regular black olives instead! Delicious!
Thanks for this recipe and the inspiration!
So glad to hear you enjoyed it!
Unfortunately, I found the salad to be quite bland. Specifically, the raw zucchini was underwhelming.
Wonderful salad
How long is this good in the fridge? Don’t think my husband and I can eat it all in one sitting.
So delicious! My husband and I loved the raw zucchini!
This was far more delicious than I anticipated!!
I added a small amount of diced yellow pepper and cut cherry tomatoes. Used cilantro instead of parsley. Loved it.
Thank u . It turned out good. I added chopped tomatoes also. Added col and flavour.