Three Pepper Salad
This three pepper salad recipe is the perfect bell pepper side dish for summer barbecues. It’s super easy to put together and I love the refreshing zest that the marinated pepper salad brings to my meals. The best part? It’s a healthy side dish perfect for grill outs and parties.
Three Pepper Salad
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. This post 3 pepper salad recipe originally appeared on The Bewitchin’ Kitchen back in 2009.
Summer is right around the corner, and that means it’s almost BBQ season!
Our house doesn’t have air conditioning (it’s not a common feature to have where I live in Northern British Columbia ) and because we don’t want to overheat the house too much, we don’t use the oven often in the summer months. It’s safe to say that our BBQ is well used and abused.
Friday nights are our steak nights, but we also cook up chicken (like these BBQ Tex Mex Chicken Breasts), or make kebabs (like these Spicy Chicken Kebabs) but I often struggle with figuring out a side dish that’s not just healthy but incredibly tasty too.
What are bbq side dishes so hard? Especially when you’re sick of the typical side salad and baked potato?
Usually, my go-to side dish is a simple spinach based salad with a homemade Greek dressing, but that gets old really fast.
I’m super picky when it comes to vegetables (I only like a handful) so we’re limited. Bell peppers are, thankfully, on the like list and when I want something zesty fresh I go for this three pepper salad.
Ingredients Needed for Pepper Salad
Head to your fridge right now to see if you have the following ingredients on hand for this easy belly pepper side dish:
- Three peppers ( different colors of bell peppers: I use red, orange, and yellow).
- Half a red onion
- Fresh parsley
- Rice Vinegar
- Toasted Sesame Oil
- Crumbled feta cheese
- Sea salt and pepper for seasoning
How to Cut Bell Peppers for Salad
For this bell pepper salad recipe I like to cut the pepper julienne, which means the peppers are cut into long, thin strips. The same goes for the red onion as well.
Not only is this more eye appealing for presentation, it’s also easier (both a win in my books).
How to Marinate Peppers
This marinated pepper salad recipe does not use canned marinated peppers. However, it is a salad that should be made ahead of time so there is the opportunity to marinate. I mentioned this before, but I’ll say it again: I like to put the recipe together in the morning if I’m BBQing that night. It will be nice and zesty by dinner time and it’s also one more thing done! You can also do this the night before, whatever works for you.
3 Pepper Salad
This pepper salad only takes a few moments to prepare, you are going to love it!
Recipes To Serve with Pepper Salad
- Crock Pot Ribs
- BBQ Tex Mex Chicken Breasts
- Broccoli Ranch Twice Baked Potatoes
- Steak with Red Wine Marinade
- Greek Chicken Souvlaki
How to Make Three Pepper Salad
Making this three pepper salad is really easy, simply combine the ingredients and let it sit and marinate. I recommend throwing it together in the morning, so it has all day to flavor up (yes, that’s the professional blogger term here).
Did you know The calorie content is really low in this pepper slaw inspired recipe? For 1/4 of the entire recipe, it’s only 113 calories and 11.7g of carbs. You find out the rest of the nutritional information by checking out the bottom of the recipe card below.
The above video is an old Facebook Live I did. You can see how I put the sweet bell pepper salad together and just how simple it is! Don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Pinterest for more delicious recipe ideas.
Three Pepper Salad
A no fuss BBQ side dish that's simple and easy to throw together. Three pepper salad is barbecue favorite!
Servings 4 servings
Calories 113kcal
Ingredients
- 1 red pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- 1 orange pepper
- 1/2 red onion
- 1/2 cup parsley
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese
- Sea salt and pepper
Instructions
- Core and seed the peppers and slice them. Add them to a large bowl.
- Slice the onion and add them to the bowl along with parsley.
- Add the vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour, toss with feta cheese and serve.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 113kcal | Carbohydrates: 11.7g | Protein: 3.6g | Fat: 6.4g | Saturated Fat: 2.4g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 121.9mg | Fiber: 1.8g | Sugar: 1.4g
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The feta cheese is like icing on the cake. Wonderful and I am definitely trying this one out.
This sounds delicious and simple to make!
That looks so good! I love Pepper!
This would be wonderful with those spicy chicken kebabs!!
Looks great! We love peppers around our house too. Even my 8 year old loves them! 🙂
I love salads and I love peppers. This simple dressing is great. It is always fun to find a different salad. Shared and pinned. Randa, thank you for sharing on Moonlight and Mason Jars link party.
Hi Amy! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
So simple & yet so much flavour. Â This is definitely a keeper!
Thanks for leaving a review Melanie!
I made this salad, oh my it was good.
Awesome! I am so glad to hear Sarah.
This looks amazing! Going to try it this weekend, do you have a print option?
Yes I do Doris. If you go to the recipe card you should see the pink button that says print recipe 🙂
Hi, we have a sesame allergy in the family, but I’d love to make this for a weekend BBQ. Would olive oil work as a replacement for sesame oil or do you have another suggestion? Thanks so much!
I have the sesame oil in there for the deep and rich flavour, but you could totally try olive oil 🙂
We loved this, and will make it again. I didnt have parsley so used the tender stem and leaves of celery. And forgot the feta. Didnt need it.
Delicious as is
This recipe is a game-changer; it’s simply amazing.
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It looks colourful. Isn’t it very spicy?