Pizza Salad

Our Pizza Salad recipe has an incredible combination of ingredients and flavors all tossed in a delicious homemade Italian vinaigrette.  To make the meal complete serve this pizza night salad with your favorite take-out pizza or stay home and make our easy French Bread Pizza.

This recipe for pizza salad one of our favorite chopped salad recipes to make. It’s made with Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, chickpeas, black olives, red onion, turkey pepperoni, pepperoncini and cheese all tossed with our tasty Italian vinaigrette.

Why You Will Love This Recipe

• Flavor. This salad has a great combination of ingredients, textures and flavors. It has something for everybody and even people who aren’t big on salads, really enjoy this one (like my son)!
• Quick And Easy. This pizza night salad is quick and easy to make. 
• Great For Sharing. We love to make this salad for pizza night, potlucks, and family and friend get-togethers. I’ve taken it to many potlucks over the years and its always a crowd-pleaser. And its a family favorite!

Pizza Salad Recipe Ingredients

• Lettuce. We use Romaine lettuce for this salad.
• Tomatoes. We like to use Roma tomatoes or cherry tomatoes, or a mix of both.
• Onion. We use sliced red onions. When adding red onion to salads, you can soak the slices in water first for about 10 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. Soaking onions in water helps to mellow the flavor quite a bit. Be sure to dry them off well before tossing them in the salad.
• Cucumber. Use either English or Persian cucumbers for this salad. If you use garden cucumbers, you’ll want to peel them and scrape out the seeds out with a spoon, because they both can be bitter tasting. English cucumbers and Persian cucumbers have a light peel and few seeds, so we like to use either of them for salad.
• Garbanzo Beans. Use canned garbanzo beans or our home cooked chickpeas.
• Black Olives.  We like to use black olives for this salad because they’re an ingredient in supreme pizza toppings.
• Cheese. We use grated mozzarella cheese and grated parmesan cheese.
• Turkey Pepperoni. We use turkey pepperoni which makes this salad worthy of being called a pizza salad.
• Vinaigrette. We use our easy Italian Salad Dressing for this salad. It’s made with simple ingredients, its super easy to make ,and it has a great combo of flavors!

Find printable recipe with the measurements below.

Variations

• Add-Ins. Try adding Baby Bella mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, canned artichoke hearts, grilled chicken or crispy Italian chicken cutlets (sliced or chopped), radicchio, or provolone cheese.
• Croutons. Toss in homemade croutons like these Herbed Croutons, Parmesan Croutons and Basil Pesto Croutons. They always make salads extra special. 
• Dressing. Swap out the Italian Salad Dressing that we use for this recipe and try one of our other salad dressings, like our Homemade Ranch Dressing, Everyday Creamy Vinaigrette, Creamy Garlic Dressing, Parmesan Vinaigrette, Zesty Italian Dressing or our Creamy Italian Dressing.

How To Make Pizza Salad

• Make Dressing. Add the ingredients to a wide-mouth mason jar, seal the lid and shake well. You can also blend the ingredients using an immersion blender (stick blender) to emulsify the dressing right in the mason jar. When you emulsify the dressing, it keeps it from separating so quickly. We prefer to use a stick blender to make this salad dressing. You can also add the ingredients to a stand blender and blend until the dressing is smooth. Adjust the seasoning and refrigerate until you’re ready to serve.
• Prep Ingredients. Chop the lettuce and put in a salad spinner basket. Rinse under cold water and then spin to dry. Rinse the cucumber and tomatoes under cold water, and pat dry. Slice the cucumber and onion and cut the Roma tomatoes into 12 bite-size chunks and slice the cherry tomatoes in half. Drain the garbanzo beans in a colander and rinse under cold water until water runs clear and pat dry. Drain the olives. Grate the mozzarella cheese using a stand grater and the parmesan cheese using a fine hand-held grater.
• Toss Salad. Transfer all of the ingredients to a large serving bowl. Drizzle the dressing over the ingredients and gently toss. Season with freshly ground black pepper.

Serving Suggestions

Obviously this Pizza Salad is a perfect salad to serve with pizza, whether it’s takeout pizza, homemade pizza or our French Bread Pizza, but it also makes a great salad to serve with just about any of your favorite Italian dishes. Here’s a some of our favorites that we like to serve this salad with.

• Soup. Serve this as a side salad with soup, like our Lasagna Soup, Easy Chicken Tortellini Soup, Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Sausage Kale Tortellini Soup, and our Zuppa Toscana Soup.
• Pasta. This salad also makes a great side salad to serve with pasta like our Ravioli Lasagna, Italian Sausage Pasta, Ravioli Lasagna, and our Baked Rigatoni with Ricotta.

More Salad Recipes

• Greek Chopped Salad
• Chicken Bacon Ranch Salad
• Chicken Cobb Salad
• Chopped Salad
• Italian Chopped Salad
• Mexican Salad Recipe
• BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad
• Chicken Avocado Chopped Salad

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Yield: 6 Servings

Pizza Salad

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Our Pizza Salad recipe has an incredible combination of ingredients and flavors all tossed in a delicious homemade Italian vinaigrette.  To make the meal complete serve this pizza night salad with your favorite take-out pizza or stay home and make our easy French Bread Pizzxa.

Ingredients

• 2 large heads Romaine lettuce, chopped
• 1/2 red onion, peeled, halved through the core and sliced thin
• 1-1/2 cups canned garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
• 2 large Roma tomatoes, sliced lengthwise in quarters then chopped
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
• 1 large English cucumber, rinsed and sliced
• 3/4 cup mozzarella cheese, grated
• 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup black olives, sliced
• 1 cup turkey pepperoni
• 1/2 cup pepperoncini

For the Vinaigrette

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• 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
• 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 2-3 tablespoons water
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 teaspoon celery salt
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 3 kalamata olives, finely minced (optional)
• 2 tablespoons Parmesan, finely grated cheese (optional)

Instructions

1. For the vinaigrette, add the ingredients to a wide-mouth mason jar, seal the lid and shake well. You can also blend the ingredients using an immersion blender (stick blender) to emulsify the dressing right in the mason jar. When you emulsify the dressing, it keeps it from separating so quickly. We prefer to use the stick blender to make this salad dressing. You can also add the ingredients to a stand blender and blend until the dressing is smooth. Adjust the seasoning and refrigerate until you're ready to serve.
2. Chop the lettuce and put in a salad spinner basket. Rinse under cold water and then spin to dry. Rinse the cucumber and tomatoes under cold water, and pat dry. Slice the cucumber and onion and cut the Roma tomatoes into 12 bite-size chunks and slice the cherry tomatoes in half. Drain the garbanzo beans in a colander and rinse under cold water until water runs clear. Drain the olives. Grate the mozzarella cheese using a stand grater and parmesan cheese using a fine hand-held grater.
3. Transfer all of the prepared ingredients to a large serving bowl. Drizzle the dressing over the ingredients and gently toss.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

6

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 649Total Fat: 52gSaturated Fat: 13gUnsaturated Fat: 39gCholesterol: 92mgSodium: 2027mgCarbohydrates: 21gFiber: 7gSugar: 6gProtein: 29g

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