What is in the Panera Greek Salad?
How to make the Panera Greek Salad and Panera Greek Dressing?
The salad is simple – start a big bowl with your romaine lettuce – I just tear it up instead of cutting it. Then add your toppings! Lots of feta cheese, sliced up grape or cherry tomatoes, plenty of kalamata olives and then a few slices of red onion and a couple of pepperoncincis.
The dressing is just as easy! I have a salad dressing shaker I use to make my own dressing and you just add all the ingredients together and shake! The dressing lasts a couple of weeks in the fridge – it’s pretty great!
Is Panera’s Greek Dressing Vegan?
I love Kalamata olives – they are my favorite! I go through a big jar in a month!!! I use them in my Copycat Skyline Greek Spaghetti recipe and on salads, in pasta, etc. My Lebanesian (is that a word) friend Maria explained to me one day that kalamata means olive – so there’s no need to say kalamata olives – it’s like saying olive olives – but I still do. hahaha
Panera Bread Copycat Recipes
Copycat Panera Greek Salad & Dressing
Panera Bread Greek Salad Ingredients:
- 1 head Romaine lettuce
- 1 tomato, diced
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta
- 1/4 red onion, sliced
- 4-5 pepperoncincis
- 1/3 cup kalamata olives
- 1/3 cup cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1/8 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 3 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed rosemary
- 2 teaspoons Greek seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions:
How to cook Copycat Panera Greek Salad
- For Dressing: Mix together all ingredients in mason jar, cover and shake
- For Salad: Combine ingredients, layering as you go and top with dressing
Hi! thanks for your copycat recipe. I will be trying it very soon. Although Kalamata olive might be redundant in Lebanese, I’m Greek and Kalamata denotes a certain type of olive. Often these olives are found in the Kalamata region of Greece, but not necessarily. There are actualmy dozens of varietals of olives if not hundreds.
wooohoo! i can’t wait to tell my lebanese friend this!!! hahahahaha
The dressing seems like way too much vinegar? Is that on purporse?
i did a side by side taste and that’s how i got to that level – so i liked it
Tastes just like Panera. Great job on creating and thanks!
Yeah!!! Glad you like it!
Panera’s Green Goddess dressing actually does have dairy in it (Panera’s ingredients list shows Romano cheese and Greek yogurt), so your version is great for those who can’t have dairy. Thanks!