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This is The Dependable Grilled Chicken Greek Salad with Creamy Greek Dressing you’ll ever have. Loaded with toppings and drizzle with a from-scratch creamy Greek dressing.

When exactly did compartmentalizing salad topping become a thing?

Was it with the cobb salad? I’m going to blame (or thank?) the cobb because all I do now is what you see above^. Rarely do I make everyone at the table one big salad anymore. For one, we all like different things in our salads and also because I like to arrange my toppings only so, all organized and OCD like and of course, in some color coded fashion. I even do this when I’m not photographing it for this blog. I guess, once a food stylist at heart… always a food stylist.

*note to self: make a cobb salad A.S.A.P!

Greek salad is at the tippy-top of my list of regular salads that I order whenever I go out to lunch. There’s a coney island restaurant around the corner from us that makes their own gyro meat (holla!) and those thin satisfying slices of heaven are darn good on a Greek salad. But if I can’t get gyro meat, then my go-to has always been grilled chicken.

This past Friday I shared with you a recipe for truly moist and rich, grilled Greek chicken. Ohmuhlord it’s so crazy good with all those fresh herbs, garlic and lemon juice. But I had ulterior motives when making it… and that was adding it to my Greek salad.

In my house, some like allthetoppings (me and Haileigh) and others like only a few, like simply the chicken and feta (Pat and Malloree). So when I’m making a salad as the main meal for dinner I set everything up in a salad bar form. Each ingredient gets an individual bowl or ramekins that way everyone can pick and choose their favorites and not have to worry about getting too much of one thing or finding something they don’t like in their bowl. The downside is that there’s more dishes to wash, BUT by doing this it eliminates any and all complaining like “ew. gross. onions are touching my lettuce.” so in my world that’s worth the few extra bowls to clean.

First things first, let’s bang out this dressing. This is a spin from My Grandma’s Greek Salad Dressing found on the blog and in my cookbook. If you’ve made it, then you know why I based this dish off of it. It’s one of my most popular recipes both on this blog and in my household. This is simply my creamy version of that old-school dressing.

It starts by grating (or squeezing through a press) one clove of garlic into a jar. Then add in 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt and 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper.

In my grandma’s recipe it calls for dried oregano, but I wanted to try this dish using fresh instead of dried. SO with that said, add 1 tablespoon of minced fresh oregano into the jar.

Add in 1/4 cup of lemon juice. Freshly squeezed, please.

…1/4 cup olive oil…

…then a 1/4 cup of full fat yogurt (Greek if you have it!)…

…and 1/4 cup mayonnaise.

Salad dressing art!

Secure a tight-fitting lid and shake it, shake it good.

Now for the salad.

One word: pepperoncinis. HUGE fan!

Here’s he break down of what I like to think as the dependable grilled chicken Greek salad evah! No measurements, no preciseness, only do it.

Then only drizzle the entire grilled chicken Greek salad with some from-scratch creamy Greek dressing and you are good. ta. go.

So pretty it hurts.

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