Color Me Pretty Salad

This Color Me Pretty Salad is a colorful Greek Salad made with vibrant fresh vegetables, creamy feta cheese, garbanzo beans, and a Greek dressing. A healthy, beautiful salad.

This is full of so much flavor, you will forget you are even eating healthy!

This Color Me Pretty Salad is my go-to salad when the night before I have slowly, one piece at a time, managed to cut and eat way too many brownies out of the pan. When you master this method of eating, you really have no idea how much you have eaten until you look at the pan and think someone else must have eaten some brownies! Right? Oops.

This Greek Salad Recipe is made with crisp vegetables, chickpeas, tangy feta cheese, creamy avocado, and a healthy Greek dressing.

So this is the redemption salad for the next day helping to make your body happy + healthy again…plus with all of the different flavors going on, it tastes amazing. No bland or boring salad here!

For starters, it’s loaded with the good stuff – everything from crisp clean vegetables to creamy avocado to tangy feta cheese. The beautiful thing about this salad is the array of vitamins and minerals found in the colorful veggies. It’s a well-rounded meal by itself but can be elevated to the next level by adding some grilled chicken.

HOW to MAKE a COLORFUL GREEK SALAD?

The base of this homemade Greek Salad is romaine hearts. They are my absolute favorite. You can pick these up at any grocery store. They usually come in a pack of 3 at the grocery store or a pack of 5 at Costco. You can use almost every piece of this kind of lettuce – just grab a knife and start chopping, making sure to chop it into very small bite-size pieces.

Be sure to grab a bag of those sweet mini peppers from the store – they give a beautiful variety of red, orange, and yellow colors to diversify your salad. Plus they are fantastic dipped in ranch dressing as an easy snack!

Garbanzo beans (chickpeas) up the fiber factor and make this salad even more substantial. Of course, avocado just makes everything better and is a super healthy fat. It got a bad wrap years ago, but not all fats are created equal and this one is chock full of vitamins.

For my picky people out there, this salad is completely customizable just for you. If you don’t adore feta cheese, use a mild cheese such as fresh mozzarella instead. If you don’t love red peppers….then goodbye peppers.

How to make a simple Greek dressing?

This Greek Salad Recipe is all tossed together with a simple Greek dressing using olive oil, red wine vinegar and herbs + spices. If you don’t have red wine vinegar, you can substitute another vinegar or use freshly squeezed lemon juice.

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Color Me Pretty Salad

Prep Time

15 mins

Total Time

15 mins

 

This is a powerhouse salad packed with vitamins from a rainbow of vegetables.

Course: Salad

Cuisine: American

Keyword: vegetable salad

Servings: 6

Calories: 296 kcal

Author: Melissa Stadler, Modern Honey

Ingredients

• 2 Romaine Hearts chopped
• 1 Avocado sliced
• 1 cup Cherry Tomatoes red or yellow
• 1 Cucumber sliced
• 1/2 - 3/4 cup Feta Cheese crumbled
• 1/4 cup Red Onion sliced
• 1/2 - 1 cup Red Orange, Yellow Peppers, diced
• 1/2 cup Shredded Carrots
• 1 cup Garbanzo Beans Chickpeas

Greek Dressing:

• 1/2 cup Olive Oil or neutral tasting oil such as canola
• 3 Tablespoons Red Wine Vinegar
• 2 Cloves Garlic or 1/2 teaspoon Garlic Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Dijon Mustard
• 1 teaspoon Dried Oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon Dried Basil or fresh basil leaves
• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1/2 teaspoon Pepper
• 1 Tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice optional
• Optional: Add Grilled Chicken

Instructions

1. Layer romaine lettuce, avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, feta, red onion, peppers, carrots, and chickpeas.
2. In a small bowl, whisk together oil, vinegar, garlic, mustard, oregano, basil, salt, pepper, and optional fresh lemon juice.
3. Toss on salad and serve immediately.

Nutrition Facts

Color Me Pretty Salad

Amount Per Serving

Calories 296 Calories from Fat 216

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 24g 37%

Saturated Fat 3g 15%

Sodium 416mg 17%

Potassium 645mg 18%

Total Carbohydrates 18g 6%

Dietary Fiber 7g 28%

Sugars 4g

Protein 5g 10%

Vitamin A 207%

Vitamin C 20.9%

Calcium 7.1%

Iron 14.2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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My kids devour this Greek Salad Recipe and with all the flavors going on, they somehow forget they are eating a garden full of healthy vegetables….which always makes Mom happy.

Happy Healthy Eating!