

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!