Greek Potato Salad

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Put a spin on your classic potato salad with this Greek Potato Salad recipe! Light, tangy, flavorful, and packed with potatoes and veggies. Greek Potato Salad will bring fun and flair to your next BBQ, luncheon, or Saturday afternoon. Serve it as an appetizer, side, or a delicious lunch option. 

Serve this Greek Potato Salad alongside our juicy Grilled Chicken Kebabs with Vegetables or Italian Wedding Soup. With our flavor packed Greek Flatbread appetizer for a myriad of mediterranean flavors!

Angled view of mediterranean potato salad.

Greek Potato Salad

This Greek Potato Salad is packed with your favorite bold Mediterranean flavors. Salty feta cheese, Kalamata and Castelvetrano olives (we like to include both for double the flavor), sharp red onion, sweet red bell peppers, a refreshing burst of mint, warm potatoes, all drizzled with our tangy, citrusy Greek dressing.

This isn’t your grandmother’s potato salad, that’s for sure! This dish can be served as a side to tender, juicy chicken, or serve it at a potluck or BBQ to shake up the traditional flavors brought to the table.

Everyone will be clammerin for your recipe and it couldn’t be easier to make! You can even make the dressing ahead of time to save yourself time during the prep work!

How To Make Greek Potato Salad

For the Dressing:

  1. In a mason jar or sealable container, combine the red wine vinegar, olive oil, minced garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, oregano, salt, and pepper. Shake until well mixed. Set aside.

For the salad:

  1. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Add the potatoes and cook for 12-15 minutes or until they are tender but not too soft. Drain and rinse with cool water.
  2. Transfer the slightly cooled potatoes to a large mixing bowl. Add the feta cheese, diced bell pepper, sliced red onion, Kalamata and Castelvetrano olives, mint, oregano, and parsley. Gently toss to combine.
  3. Pour the dressing over the salad and stir to combine. Allow the salad to cool in the refrigerator for at least an hour before serving.
  4. Serve chilled or at room temperature with extra dressing, fresh mint, fresh oregano, fresh parsley, or lemon wedges as a garnish and enjoy!
Collage showing how to make greek potato salad.

Tips and Variations

  • The dressing is our Greek Salad Dressing, but feel free to use your favorite.
  • Don’t let the potatoes get so soft that they can be mashed. They should be slightly firm but still soft enough to eat. You don’t want them so soft that they fall apart when mixing with the other ingredients and dressing.
  • Once the potatoes are boiled, briefly rinse them in cool (not cold) water to stop any further cooking. However, they do need to be somewhat warm to help absorb the dressing and the flavors of the other ingredients.
  • Yellow or gold potatoes are best in this recipe. You may use small red potatoes if you already have them on hand but be careful when boiling as they will cook much faster than the larger potatoes.
  • Try to cut potatoes into similar bite sized pieces to ensure they boil evenly.
Greek potato salad with lemon slices in a bowl.

Storage

Storage: Store any leftover Greek Potato Salad in an airtight container or tightly wrapped in plastic wrap in your refrigerator for 3 days. 

We don’t recommend freezing this potato salad and there is no need to reheat.

More Of Our Favorite Potato Recipes (Salad and Otherwise):

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Greek potato salad in a serving dish.

Greek Potato Salad

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Author: Kim
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Servings: 12 Servings

Ingredients

For the Dressing:

For the Salad:

  • 2 pounds yellow, or gold potatoes, cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 1 cup feta cheese, crumbled
  • 1 red bell pepper, diced
  • ½ red onion, thinly sliced
  • ¼ cup Kalamata olives, halved
  • ¼ cup Castelvetrano olives, halved
  • 1 tablespoon mint, fresh, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon oregano, fresh, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon parsley, fresh, chopped

Instructions
 

For the Dressing:

  • In a jar or sealable container, combine the vinegar, olive oil, garlic, lemon zest, lemon juice, oregano, salt and pepper. Shake until well mixed. Set aside.
    ⅓ cup red wine vinegar
    ⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil
    2 garlic cloves
    1 tablespoon lemon zest
    1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
    1 ½ teaspoons oregano
    1 teaspoon salt
    ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper

For the salad:

  • Place the potatoes into a pot of cold water, and cook for 12-15 minutes or until they are tender but not too soft. Drain and rinse with cool water.
    2 pounds yellow
  • Transfer the potatoes to a large mixing bowl. Add the feta cheese, bell pepper, red onion, olives, mint, oregano, and parsley. Toss to combine.
    1 cup feta cheese
    1 red bell pepper
    ½ red onion
    ¼ cup Kalamata olives
    ¼ cup Castelvetrano olives
    1 tablespoon mint
    1 tablespoon oregano
    1 tablespoon parsley
  • Pour the dressing over the salad and stir to combine. Allow the salad to cool in the refrigerator for at least an hour before serving.
  • Serve chilled or at room temperature with extra dressing, fresh mint, fresh oregano, fresh parsley or lemon wedges.

Notes

*The calories listed are an approximation based on the ingredients in the recipe card and a serving size of 1/2 a cup of potato salad. Actual calories will vary.
 
*For more information, tips, and answers to frequently asked questions, please refer to the post.

Nutrition

Serving: 0.5cupCalories: 138kcalCarbohydrates: 10gProtein: 3gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 334mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2g

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