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By: MadelinePosted: 02/02/2023Updated: 02/05/2023

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Use this simple Italian Chopped Salad recipe to make a delicious and satisfying Italian salad. Just chop up your ingredients and toss them in an Italian salad dressing!

Above view of a tossed Italian Chopped Salad in a mixing bowl

Make a quick, refreshing, and satisfying lunch

I love a good Italian salad especially one that reminds me of an Italian hoagie. For this Italian chopped salad recipe I took two of my favorite Italian sub ingredients, provolone and salami, rolled them up and sliced them into bite sized pieces for the chopped salad.

I paired the meat and cheese with ribbons of romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, red onion, pepperoncini and fresh parsley. The salad gets tossed with a delicious and simple homemade Italian dressing.

This chopped Italian salad is perfect on its own for a quick lunch or it can be served as a side dish for your next pizza night! It is perfect for meal prep or to serve to a crowd.

Above view of a homemade Italian salad dressing being poured over an Italian salad

Kitchen tools

  • Mixing bowls
  • Sharp knife and cutting board
  • Measuring spoons
  • Measuring cups
  • Liquid measuring cup

Serving Suggestions

This salad is perfect for a quick and easy weekday lunch. You can prep it ahead of time and leave the dressing on the side to have lunch prepped for a couple of days.

It is also perfect served as a side salad alongside your favorite pasta recipe. I personally like to serve this extra flavorful salad alongside a bowl of mushroom alfredo pasta or cherry tomato pasta with chicken. Round out the meal with a hearty slice of no knead foccacia.

Ingredients for a homemade Italian salad

Italian Chopped Salad Ingredients

  • Romaine lettuce
  • Red onion
  • Mild pepperoncini
  • Cherry tomatoes
  • Thin sliced hard salami
  • Provolone cheese
  • Fresh parsley

Italian Salad Dressing Ingredients

  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Red wine vinegar
  • Dried oregano
  • Salt and pepper
  • Garlic powder

Ingredient substitutions

There are many ways to make this Italian chop salad your own. Its basically just any of your Italian favorites chopped up in a big mixing bowl.

In place of pepperoncini you can use spicy pickled banana peppers or thinly sliced bell peppers. You could also use sliced sun dried tomatoes in place of cherry tomatoes.

If you are not a fan of raw onion slices, replace them with pickled onions or something more mild like sliced green onion. To add even more flavor, consider including things like chopped cucumber, pitted olives and capers.

To make this salad vegetarian, replace the sliced lunchmeat with something like chickpeas or white beans. You can even use roasted chickpeas for a bit of added crunch.

Above view of step by step assembly of an Italian chopped salad recipe

How to make an Italian Chopped Salad

Step 1: Prepare salad toppings

To begin, rinse vegetables. Chop romaine lettuce into thin ribbons.

Then, stack alternating provolone and salami on top of one another in 2 stacks. Roll them into tubes and slice into rounds.

Slice red onion into thin slices. Cut cherry tomatoes into cubes and slice pepperoncini into thin slices – deseed if you want. 

Step 2: Make Italian salad dressing and assemble salad

Then, whisk together salad dressing ingredients until thoroughly combined. Place all ingredients on the romaine lettuce along with the fresh parsley and toss to combine.

Step 3: Toss Italian salad and serve!

Finally, pour Italian salad dressing over the chopped salad and toss again. Serve immediately.

Above view of meat and cheese pinwheels to put on an Italian salad

How do you make little pinwheels of meat and cheese for chopped salads?

To make the pinwheels pictured above I stacked alternating layers of salami and provolone cheese. I created two stacks and then rolled those stacks into a tube.

Then, I sliced the tube into little rounds to put on my Italian salad!

You can use this pinwheel trick with any kind of lunchmeat! You could use ham, american cheese and turkey to make pinwheels for a chef salad.

Above view of an Italian salad tossed with a homemade Italian salad dressing on a serving plate

Can i prep this ahead of time?

Yes! If you want to prepare this Italian chopped salad ahead of time you can prepare it up to 24 hours before serving.

Keep the salad and Italian salad dressing separate and toss the salad in the dressing just before serving. To make this chopped salad for a party, just double or triple the ingredients and serve the tossed salad and dressing separately.

Check out these other delicious lunch ideas!

  • Lemon Dill Tuna Salad
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  • Veggie Couscous Salad

You can find the full recipe below. If you make this recipe, please rate and review it in the comments, or share it with me on Instagram!

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Above view of an assembled italian chopped salad with a homemade italian vinaigrette
Recipe

Italian Chopped Salad

★★★★★ 5 from 8 reviews

Make a satisfying Italian Chopped Salad with simple ingredients and a delicious homemade Italian salad dressing!

Recipe By: Madeline
Prep: 5 minutesCook: 10 minutesTotal: 15 minutes
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Ingredients

Italian Chopped Salad Ingredients

  • 1 head romaine lettuce
  • 4 slices provolone cheese
  • 6 slices thinly sliced hard salami
  • 1/4 of a large red onion
  • 6oz cherry tomatoes
  • 3oz mild pepperoncini
  • 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

Italian Salad Dressing Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Instructions

  1. Rinse vegetables. Chop romaine lettuce into thin ribbons. Stack alternating provolone and salami on top of one another in 2 stacks. Roll them into tubes and slice into rounds.
  2. Slice red onion into thin slices. Cut cherry tomatoes into cubes and slice pepperoncini into thin slices – deseed if you want. 
  3. Whisk together salad dressing ingredients until thoroughly combined. Place all ingredients on the romaine lettuce along with the fresh parsley and toss to cobine.
  4. Pour Italian salad dressing over the chopped salad and toss again. Serve immediately.
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.
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  1. Jamie A says

    Posted on 3/19 at 3:45 pm

    LOVED this to take to work. So refreshing and light. Will be adding it to my weekly meal prep. Simple and delicious. Also thinking of doing this alongside a homemade flatbread!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 3/25 at 3:53 pm

      aw yay!! thank you!!

      Reply
  2. Liz says

    Posted on 3/23 at 1:21 pm

    I love your recipes because not only are they easy & healthy, they are SATISFYING. FINALLY a salad I can look forward to eating for lunch that doesn’t leave me craving chips or crackers after. This hit the spot in the best way!

    ★★★★★

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    • Madeline says

      Posted on 3/25 at 3:48 pm

      AW thank you SO much!!

      Reply
  3. Abby says

    Posted on 3/23 at 8:05 pm

    I loved this salad. I’m eating it as I write this. It was so easy to throw together. Salad dressing was light and everything together was so tasty!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 3/25 at 3:43 pm

      awesome!! thank you so much!!

      Reply
  4. Avery says

    Posted on 5/4 at 8:54 am

    I love this recipe, the dressing is so easy and delicious for many salads besides this one! Even your ‘non-recipe’ recipes (on Instagram stories mostly) are SO inspiring for my cooking repertoire in general, thank you for sharing it all with us!

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 5/4 at 8:35 pm

      aw thank you so much!! I love to hear that!!

      Reply
  5. Hannah Stiver says

    Posted on 6/17 at 9:43 pm

    Delicious! Easy summertime lunch.

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 6/23 at 9:35 am

      yay!! so glad! thank you!

      Reply
  6. Kat says

    Posted on 7/12 at 3:20 pm

    Another great MAF salad! I am making these for my lunches all week and actually looking forward to the same thing each day.

    ★★★★★

    Reply
  7. Jessica says

    Posted on 7/30 at 6:29 pm

    This is a divine! It’s a really great work-from-home salad that comes together quickly and keeps you full and full of flavor

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 8/6 at 10:23 am

      wonderful! thank you!!

      Reply
  8. Syd says

    Posted on 8/30 at 12:13 am

    I always see you post your chopped salads and they look amazing!! Cant wait to give this one a try!

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 8/30 at 8:02 pm

      yay!

      Reply
  9. Sydney says

    Posted on 10/11 at 5:53 pm

    Made this is a meal prep type preparation for work and it was wonderful!

    Reply
  10. Delaney says

    Posted on 10/13 at 9:23 pm

    Super yummy, light, and refreshing! A great salad as a meal or a side. Leftovers keep surprisingly well, too. Will definitely make again!

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 10/20 at 2:21 pm

      Yay thanks! Love to hear that it kept well too.

      Reply
  11. Monica says

    Posted on 2/21 at 1:51 pm

    Love this salad so much! It’s a staple in our home now. Thank you so much

    ★★★★★

    Reply
    • Madeline says

      Posted on 2/21 at 5:04 pm

      Woohoo! Great to hear. Thanks, Monica!

      Reply

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