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Olive Garden Salad Mix – use our recipe, and make this at home.

March 29, 2009 25 Comments

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

olive garden salad mix

Olive Garden Salad

Olive Garden Salad Mix

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  • Recipe Type: Salad
  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 10 minutes
  • Serves: 8
Olive Garden Salad Mix

You can prepare the salad blend just like the Olive Garden does.

Ingredients

  • 1 bag Dole American Blend Salad
  • 4-5 slices red onion
  • 4-6 black olives
  • 2-4 pepperoncini (if you like a sweet pepper, you could use a banana pepper)
  • 1/2 cup croutons
  • 1 small tomato, quartered
  • freshly grated Romano cheese (Parmesan Cheese works well too!)

Instructions

Chill one salad bowl in freezer for at least 30 minutes. Place bag of salad in bowl. Place on top of the lettuce the red onion, black olives, pepperoncinis, tomatoes, and croutons. Add some freshly grated Parmesan cheese if you like, and add plenty of Olive Garden Salad Dressing on top.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/kellyintenn Kelly McCulley

    You can now buy the Olive Garden dressing at Wal-Mart or Sam’s club. Sam’s also carries the olive garden brand of croutons.

    • http://www.copykat.com Stephanie

      Thank you for sharing that info. I have seen it for sale now. My recipe came out long before they started to sell this in the store. I hope you don’t mind if I keep the recipe up :-P .

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  • Jt

    If u don’t want to make the dressing it is now available in two packs at Sam’s. (Walmart)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1426553871 Kathy Patton-Bender

    I have made this several times and EVERYONE LOVES it! The only change I make is that I use bagged Hearts of Romaine lettuce instead of the iceberg American mix as we enjoy that more as our choice of lettuce

  • pammysue

    I have been making this salad for years. there is no artichokes in this salad. but there is pepperoncini peppers. after purchasing the pepperoncini at different stores, I really prefer them from Gordon’s Food Store. They are not so bitter and taste great live theres. Also the tomato is a roma tomato they serve at Olive Garden

  • Leahbean16

    unbeilable so good my family and i are preparing the olive garden salad for our dinner

  • Leahbean16

    unbeilable so good my family and i are preparing the olive garden salad for our dinner

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  • Dena

    I believe that Olive Garden’s salad has artichoke hearts in it?

    • http://www.copykat.com Stephanie

      I don’t think it has any artichoke hearts in it, but it sure would be tasty if it did have artichoke hearts in it.

    • Leahbean16

      no you dork why would it and if it does than grose

    • Leahbean16

      no you dork why would it and if it does than grose

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  • Mary Heath, Augusta, GA

    I asked 2 different people at the Olive Garden what kind of cheese do the use and both said Romano. Just thought you would like to know.

    Thanks for the update! ~Stephanie

    • Leahbean16

      but head

    • Leahbean16

      but head

  • Dude

    They use pepperoncelli peppers, not banana peppers.

    • Rose

      I’m pretty sure the recipe said that…and banana was an option to make it sweeter

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    thank you for this recipe I was too embarrassed to ask at the restaurant and so happy to see it on your website. thank you my family will be sooo happy! J

  • http://www.copykat.com/2010/02/28/olive-garden-chicken-and-gnocchi-soup/ Anonymous

    The peppers are supposed to be pepperoncini peppers and roma tomatoes sold at most grocery stores- Wal-mart, Kroger, Mejiers…etc. The dressing is sold at the Olive Garden Restaurant!

  • Stacey

    The cheese is actually grated Romano cheese.

  • Lizzy

    They’re actually peppercini’s, which is a sweeter pepper.

    • Suz

      banana pepper = sweet
      pepperoncini = medium hot

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