Greek Pasta Salad

Jenny Skrapaliori-Graves | Published: March 8, 2025 | Modified: March 8, 2025

A plate with Greek pasta salad on a wooden table.

Our Greek pasta salad is an excellent side dish for grilled meats or a satisfying dinner salad. Short-cut pasta, roasted peppers, dill pickles, and mustard dressing make it delicious, warm, or at room temperature.

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Overview

Why this recipe sings

It is a refreshing, easy, quick pasta salad with simple ingredients.
It’s a terrific dish to enjoy all seasons. When it’s chilly outside, enjoy a bowl of warm pasta salad with a toasted, buttered slice of bread. In summertime, serve it room temperature to accompany grilled meats and veggies at your barbecue gathering.

Here is what you need

Short pasta, celery, roasted peppers, mustard, mayonnaise, fresh dill, sugar, dill pickles, lemon and salt and pepper on a wooden surface.

Short pasta—like elbow macaroni, ditali, or penne and rigatoni.
Dill pickles—salty, sour, and slightly grassy flavor perfectly complements the rest of the ingredients.
Celery—neutral yet fresh, adds a crunch.
Roasted red peppers—homemade or store-bought—are delicious. They’re sweet and slightly smoky. I always have a jar of peppers in my fridge. They’re a very versatile ingredient for salads and sauces.
Fresh dill—it always smells like spring when fresh dill is in a dish.
Mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, and a little sugar—for a dressing.
Sea salt, freshly ground pepper and dried oregano.

How to make it

Cook the pasta in salted water, according to the instructions on the package.
Add the mayo, mustard, lemon juice, sugar, a generous pinch of salt, and freshly ground pepper in a medium jar. Cover and shake the jar well to emulsify the dressing.
Dice the peppers, celery, and dill pickles.

Chpped roasted peppers, pasta, celery, dill pickles in a bowl with dressing pouring over.

Place the cooked pasta, the pickles, celery, red peppers, and dill in a large salad bowl and toss.

Greek pasta salad with a wooden spoon in a bowl.

Shake the dressing jar again, pour it over the salad, and toss. Garnish with more dill if you like.
Our Greek pasta salad can be served warm or at room temperature.

A plate with Greek pasta salad on a wooden table, at the back, herbs, lemons and a cloth napkin.

What to serve with Greek pasta salad

Storage

Store the pasta salad in an airtight container in the coldest part of your refrigerator to prevent drying out and maintain freshness.
It is not recommended to freeze it, the mayonnaise dressing does not do well in the freezer.