Greek Salad with lettuce is strictly an American thing, but this is the salad I make every summer, all summer long, and American Greek Salad is low-carb, Keto, low-glycemic, gluten-free, and South Beach Diet friendly! Use the Recipes-by-Diet-Type Index to find more recipes like this one.
As soon as summer arrives, this American Greek Salad with Lettuce will be on the menu at my house for every single family party, and I'll be making it quite often just for a quick lunch or dinner as well. Definitely this is one of my signature salads, and I never get tired of it! And summer is nearly here, and this recipe is getting some very badly needed new photos, which I hope will entice you to try it if you've never made this one.
I've been making and eating so-called Greek salads like
this for years and years, but when I went to Greece in 1998, I discovered that what many American restaurants called Greek Salad didn't really exist there! Greek Salad in Greece (often called village salad) has cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, Kalamata olives, green pepper, and Feta with a dressing made from olive oil and vinegar or lemon juice and seasoned with a little dried oregano. But no lettuce. NEVER lettuce!
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I like my Greek salads both with and without the lettuce, but the version with lettuce is the one I make the most. I used to be somewhat unenthusiastic about the green bell pepper, but the last few years I've realized that thin slivers of green pepper and some sliced green onion add a lot of flavor to a salad like this. I'm also pretty insistent on the addition of some caper juice and capers in the dressing, and I actually like this salad with blue cheese dressing too, which is most definitely not Greek! You can add or subtract ingredients based on what you prefer, but don't leave out the handful of lettuce if you're going to call this American Greek Salad.
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