What Kind Of Lettuce Does Olive Garden Use

Olive Garden Salad is one of the best things about the Olive Garden. The Italian salad is so fresh and made up just for you. You can make the Olive Garden salad at home and we will show you how. It is easy to make a salad just like the restaurant.

homemade Olive Garden salad in a wood bowl

Famous Olive Garden Italian Salad

Have you ever wondered how to put together this famous salad? It is relatively easy to prepare this salad.

What makes this salad special? It is all of the wonderful extra ingredients in it that make it extra special. I don't know about you, but when we grew up eating salad at home, we would add tomatoes, and if we were fancy we would add some sliced cucumber.

What is in Olive Garden salad?

Olive Garden salad consists of fresh lettuce, olives, peppers, cheese, croutons, and dressing. Here's what you need to make it at home:

I like to use a bag of American salad mix to start with but then you need the special ingredients.

Pitted black olives add the right touch to this salad. I usually have a can or two of these black olives on hand.

For the peppers, you have a couple of choices. If you like the peppers hot, add pepperoncini. If you like those peppers mild, you could use banana peppers.

Red onions make this salad special. Slice your red onions very thin. When red onions are freshly sliced they can be a little hot, the air oxides them and takes away the heat.

Shredded Parmesan or Romano cheese is the perfect touch for an Italian salad.

You will want your salad piled high with croutons. If you have some leftover bread, you could always toast up the bread and make them fresh with my air fryer croutons recipe.

Finally, don't forget the Olive Garden salad dressing. The salad dressing is sold everywhere now or you can make your Olive Garden Salad dressing with my copycat recipe.

How to Make Olive Garden Salad

Chill your salad bowl in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
Empty the bag of salad blend into the bowl.
Top the salad with onion, olives, pepperoncini, croutons, and tomatoes.
Add some freshly grated cheese, if you like.
Add Olive Garden salad dressing and toss to combine.
Serve immediately.

Love Olive Garden? Try these copycat recipes!

Creamy Chicken Gnocchi Soup
Fried Mozzarella Sticks
Grilled Chicken Margherita
Olive Garden Lasagna Recipe
Olive Garden Shrimp Scampi
Steak Alfredo
Toscana Soup
Watermelon Sangria

Favorite Salad Recipes

Applebees Oriental Chicken Salad
Cucumber Tomato Onion Salad
Hot Bacon Spinach Salad
Panera Mediterranean Salad
Wendy's Strawberry Salad

Check out more of my easy salad recipes and the best Olive Garden recipes here on CopyKat!

homemade Olive Garden salad in a wood bowl

12 ounces iceberg salad blend
½ red onion thinly sliced
6 pitted black olives
4 pepperoncini or banana peppers
½ cup croutons
1 tomato quartered
¼ cup freshly grated Romano or Parmesan cheese (optional)
½ cup Olive Garden Salad Dressing

Chill your salad bowl in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
Empty the bag of salad into the bowl.
Top the salad with sliced onion, olives, pepperoncini, croutons, and tomatoes.
Add freshly grated cheese, if desired.
Add Olive Garden salad dressing and toss to combine. Serve immediately.

I recreate your favorite restaurant recipes, so you can prepare these dishes at home. I help you cook dinner, and serve up dishes you know your family will love. You can find most of the ingredients for all of the recipes in your local grocery store.

Stephanie is the author of CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home, and CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home 2.

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