Artichoke Salad

If you love dishes like Greek horiataki, orzo salad, and lentil salad, you will love this artichoke salad. Olives, parmesan cheese and artichokes are just perfect together.

Louise LOVES artichokes, and since we moved to Italy (where artichokes are abundant), I wanted to cook her more recipes with artichokes.

Never tried artichokes before? Here is your chance 😛. You can serve it as an appetizer with homemade focaccia bread, or as a side dish with a meatless meal.

You can even turn this salad into fulfilling meal.

Add cooked white beans and your favorite short pasta, and you will have a vegetarian antipasto salad 💪.

• Arugula: You can substitute spinach, watercress, radicchio, or mixed salad leaves for the arugula.
• Artichokes: Use jarred artichokes in oil. If you want to use fresh artichokes, follow our guide on cleaning and cooking artichokes and pan-frying them before adding them to the salad.
• Cherry tomatoes: We recommend small sweet tomatoes, like cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, or date tomatoes.
  
  You can substitute vine tomatoes, grape tomatoes, or Roma tomatoes for cherry tomatoes, but in this case, we recommend cutting them in half, then in wedges.
• Red onion: adds a pleasant tang to this dish. Substitute shallot or scallions for the red onion.
• Olives: We use pitted black olives if we are on a budget, or Gaeta olives or Kalamata olives when we feel splurging. Substitute chopped sun-dried tomatoes or capers for olives.

Italian dressing

• Extra virgin olive oil: try not to substitute; the next best is regular olive oil;
• Vinegar: white wine, red wine, or apple cider vinegar. Sub with 1 tbsp dijon mustard;
• Lemon juice: best if freshly squeezed;
• Maple syrup: sub honey or agave syrup;
• Dried oregano: sub Italian seasoning or chopped fresh parsley;
• Dried basil: sub Italian seasoning or chopped fresh basil;
• Garlic powder: sub grated or finely minced garlic;
• Salt: we use sea salt;
• Black pepper.

You can substitute our honey mustard dressing for Italian dressing.

Add-ins

Add white beans, chickpeas, pasta, crumbled feta cheese, diced red pepper, asparagus, capers, fresh herbs like mint or dill.

Arrange the arugula on a large serving platter or salad bowl.

Drain the quartered artichoke hearts and scatter them on top of the arugula.

Note: if your artichokes aren’t quartered, you can cut them with a small paring knife.

Top with halved cherry tomatoes, pitted olives, and thinly sliced red onion.

In a small jar, add the ingredients for the Italian dressing: extra virgin olive oil, vinegar, freshly squeezed lemon juice, dried oregano, dried basil, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper.

Close the jar and shake well.

Alternatively, mix the ingredients in a small bowl until well combined.

Drizzle half of the dressing onto the salad and serve the other half in a bowl for guests to help themselves.

We like to serve the salad without tossing it because it looks beautiful.

Garnish with shaved parmesan cheese before serving.

Artichoke pasta salad

Excellent for potlucks, packed lunches, and no-fuss dinners. Artichoke pasta salad is simply delicious, and it’s a total crowd-pleaser.

To make it extra nutritious, we recommend adding white beans too.

Add 8 to 12 ounces of short pasta (we love farfalle, rotini, or fusilli here) cooked al dente in plenty of salted boiling water.

Questions

Make Ahead: you can chop the ingredients beforehand and keep them in the refrigerator for about a day. Then, assemble the salad and drizzle with dressing shortly before serving.

Refrigerator: artichoke salad leftovers keep well for about 24 hours, in the fridge, in an airtight container. Take the salad out of the refrigerator 15 to 30 minutes before eating it, as it tastes better at room temperature.

Freezing: this recipe is not suitable for freezing.

Get new ideas with these wholesome and easy artichoke recipes:

• Braised artichokes
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• Steamed artichokes
• How to cook artichokes

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