Antipasto Salad
Antipasto Salad is filled with fresh ingredients like Genoa salami, pepperoni, black olives, provolone, grape tomatoes, red onions, artichoke hearts, and pepperoncini peppers. This Italian salad is filling, keto-friendly, and delicious!
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ITALIAN ANTIPASTO SALAD RECIPE
Whenever we go to a potluck and are asked to bring a side dish I always bring something that could easily double as an entree just to make sure we all walk away full.
My husband is living the Keto lifestyle and so I try to bring something Keto-friendly that he can fill up on like this flavorful salad.
Think of all the flavors of an Italian sandwich in salad form with crisp romaine and this is it!
WHAT IS ANTIPASTO?
Antipasto platters are often the traditional first course of an Italian meal. Typical ingredients of an antipasto salad platter include cured meats, olives, pepperoncini, artichoke hearts, various cheeses, pickled meats, and vegetables in oil or vinegar. This appetizer is an Italian version of a charcuterie board.
SUBSTITUTIONS:
- Use fresh mozzarella cheese or mozzarella pearls instead of provolone.
- Use mini pepperoni or any Italian meats. Turkey pepperoni would be a great healthy option.
- Add some roasted red peppers, banana peppers, or chopped bell pepper.
- Use green olives kalamata olives instead of black.
- Any tomato will work here I just like the texture of grape or cherry tomatoes.
- You could even add any kind of white bean like a can of chickpeas.
FEEDING A CROWD?
If you’re feeding a crowd and need to bulk up this easy salad, add some cooked and cooled pasta and toss with all of the ingredients. Now you have an antipasto pasta salad. Use a large bowl!
WHAT DRESSING DO I USE?
To be honest, there are a lot of really good simple Italian dressing for sale out there at the grocery store and most of them are low-carb. I like the Olive Garden copycat dressing (sold in the dressing aisle and Costco) and Marie’s Parmesan Italian dressing.
If you want to make your own homemade vinaigrette you can simple use the recipe below and whisk together extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, and dried oregano. Add salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle over salad.
OTHER SALAD RECIPES:
- Keto Broccoli Salad
- Crunchy Pea Salad
- Cobb Salad
- Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad
- Poppy Seed Fruit Salad
- Corn, Avocado, and Tomato Salad
- Frito Corn Salad
- Potato Salad
- BLT Pasta Salad
- Pizza Pasta Salad
- Creamy Cucumber Salad
Ingredients
- 8 cups chopped romaine lettuce
- 3/4 cup grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
- 6 ounces provolone cheese, diced
- 4 ounces marinated artichokes, drained and chopped
- 1/2 cup olives , (about 3 ounces)
- 2 ounces hard salami, diced
- 2 ounces pepperoni, quartered
- 1/4 cup sliced pepperoncinis
- 1/4 cup sliced red onion
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese, (more to taste)
Instructions
- In a large shallow salad bowl, add the romaine and layer all of the rest of the ingredients. Toss together with your favorite Italian dressing and enjoy.
Notes
Love this easy salad! Make your own Italian dressing with EVOO, vinegar and Larry’s seasoning and Italian herbs!
Loved it!
Thank yoU!
It would be helpful if you would provide the nutritional value of this recipe. Helpful to know the total calorie count so an individual would know how many calories per serving. Thank you!
It’s at the bottom of the recipe card.
This is a great antipasto recipe and easy to tweak with your substitution ideas. I know if there’s added pasta, it’s no longer antipasto, but to stretch or be different, I’ll add pea pasta ( Zenb rotini )
Thanks Christine!
Whats the serving and how many calories in a serving?
There are 8 servings so you divide the salad by 8. You can weigh the whole salad and then divide by 8 and that’s a serving.
Do you just blend all of the ingredients for the dressing in a blender?
Any recommendations for a brand name of artichokes? Every kind I’ve ever purchased has terrible texture and flavor.  Thank you. Â
You mention red onions in the description of this salad and it is shown on the picture, but you don’t include red onion in your ingredients list. I was a little confused, but red onions would certainly benefit this salad. I’m taking it to a potluck this weekend!
Sorry! They should be on there now.
Made this with lasagna for a get together with friends. It was SO good! The Italian dressing recipe you included ended up being really thick. For some reason I thought it would be more thin and pourable but once I tossed the salad with it, it coated everything so you got the dressing in every bite!
Weird mine wasn’t that thick at all. Glad you liked it! You can definitely thin it out.