Creamy Lemon Feta Dressing
Take your salad game up a notch with this quick and easy homemade Creamy Lemon Feta Dressing. Use it to dress greens or pasta salad, add some pizazz to grilled chicken, or serve as a veggie dip.
I believe that one of the easiest but most impactful ways to take your home cooking up a notch is to make homemade salad dressings.
While jarred salad dressings are certainly quick and easy, they’re also generally filled with quite a bit of sodium and sugar.
Additionally, the flavor can be really hit or miss, and you usually don’t know how it’s going to taste until you’ve already committed and purchased an entire bottle.
That’s why I love to make homemade salad dressings like miso dressing and citrus salad dressing.
Today, allow me to show you how another homemade salad dressing with big flavor can come together quickly and easily, and wow your family and friends.
The combination of lemon and feta can’t be beat – I’ve already made sure of that with my Greek yogurt mashed potatoes.
This feta cheese dressing is inspired by the Greek feta dressing at a local restaurant, and it’s an incredibly versatile recipe to have in your back pocket (especially to serve alongside Greek lasagna, lamb bolognese or rigatoni bolognese!).
How to make homemade feta dressing:
It’s as simple as grabbing some fridge and pantry ingredients and whirring it up in a food processor or blender!
One of these electric appliances is necessary to achieve a feta cheese dressing with a mostly smooth texture with just a few small chunks.
If you don’t have a food processor or blender, or desire a chunkier dressing, you can also stir the ingredients together by hand.
What are the ingredients in creamy feta dressing?
- feta cheese
- mayonnaise
- milk
- Worcestershire sauce
- lemon juice (buy an extra lemon for lemon caper pasta!)
- lemon zest
- garlic
- black pepper
- dried parsley
- dried oregano
What kind of feta cheese should I use?:
If you’re spending the time to make homemade feta salad dressing, it’s important to use great ingredients so the end result is as delicious as possible.
Tangy, zesty Nikos Feta Cheese has been my go-to brand for many years. It’s an award-winning American version of classic Mediterranean feta.
Because it’s made from cow’s milk, it has a milder, less salty taste than Greek feta (which is often made from sheep’s milk).
This works well when you don’t want a super salty cheese that may overpower delicate salad ingredients. Been there, done that, believe me.
Any leftover feta can be stirred into breakfast muffins or sprinkled over lamb tacos.
What to do with feta dressing:
While a classic Greek salad with tomatoes and cucumbers comes to mind right away, I’ve found lots of other uses for this creamy feta dressing, including:
- drizzling on sliced watermelon
- dressing for a pasta salad or my summer beet salad recipe
- adding some pizzaz to grilled chicken or beef kafta
- dressing for Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts
- serving as a dip for vegetables or crackers (see Home Chef Tip in recipe box)
- toss with a green salad, such as the one pictured above, where I used arugula, radishes, blueberries, strawberries and toasted almonds.
- serve over a turkey burger salad
- use in place of the pesto mayo on my lamb sliders

Creamy Lemon Feta Dressing
Take your salad game up a notch with this quick and easy homemade Creamy Lemon Feta Dressing. Use it to dress greens or pasta salad, add some pizazz to grilled chicken, or serve as a veggie dip.
Ingredients
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 cup (4 ounces) crumbled feta cheese
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to bowl of food processor fitted with knife blade attachment or blender and process until smooth. Can be served immediately, or, for best flavor, cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour or up to 5 days.
Notes
Home Chef Tip: To make a thicker dressing to use as a dip for vegetables or crackers, reduce milk to 2 tablespoons.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 2 tablespoonsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 100Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 17mgSodium: 199mgCarbohydrates: 6gFiber: 0gSugar: 4gProtein: 3g
More great recipes using feta cheese:
- Deluxe Turkey Burger Salad – a filling dinner salad for a weeknight
- Greek Chicken Fried Rice – a fun recipe the whole family will love
- Bacon-Feta Potato & Green Bean Salad – try it this summer!
- Feta Terrines with Spring Vegetables – an easy but impressive appetizer
- Tomato Feta Soup from Cooking LSL
- Chicken Feta Spinach Pasta from Salt & Lavender
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Saputo Cheese USA Inc. Sponsored posts help me pay for the costs associated with this blog (groceries…lots of groceries), and help support me as I pursue a career in recipe development and food photography. All opinions are 100% my own.
I’ve made this so many times. Sooo good! My husband likes sweet stuff so sometimes I add a little honey. Delicious as is though!! Thanks so much.
Love the addition of honey. I fully support that! So glad this is a hit for you and your husband, Jessie.
Looking at this recipe again, I realize that it would be a great substitute for ranch dressing. I like a thicker dressing at times, and this one works with a keto or very low carb diet. I recently made a batch of keto ranch dressing, and the only thing I could taste in it was the mayonnaise (even after sitting for a week). So I thank you for helping my sanity by mentioning this recipe again.
I hope this dressing is what you are looking for, Susan!
I just made this dressing. And how good it is !! I had sweet potato fries and the dressing served with it, a salad of arugula with tomatoes and added some dressing. With a chicken cordon blue and it was delicious!
Just made this dressing in 5 minutes and it’s absolutely delicious! I was looking for a dressing to go on grilled chicken pitas with cucumber, tomatoes and arugula. It’s a perfect addition. What I really love is that I had all the ingredients in my fridge/pantry already. That’s always a huge plus finding a recipe that is used with everyday ingredients.
This will be a new staple for me! Thanks for sharing!
I am so happy to hear that, Jessie. Your grilled chicken pitas sound delicious!
I made this today. It’s great. I did add a good pinch of salt. Excellent recipe. Thanks for sharing
I’m so glad you liked it, Penny!
Your idea of creamy lemon feta dressing is looking amazing and I love it. Thank you for posting it. I will try it next weekend.
Awesome, Rosamonde. Thanks for stopping by!
Girl! Why aren’t we friends, cooking, drinking and eating while the Hubby’s watch TV?
Lol … this looks amazing and I’m making it soon ?
Girl, I DON’T KNOW. Because that sounds like an ideal evening!
YUM!!!!!!!! I love feta cheese, including feta made from either sheep’s milk or goat’s milk. My usual salad dressing is just pouring olive oil and balsamic vinegar directly on my salad. The only dressing I make with some frequency is a mole dressing that I was able to recreate from a video my husband took when we had dinner at a dinner theater in Mexico. That said, I just looked at my menu for the week, which was missing the veggies for several meals, and realized that your feta dressing should go very nicely with the Moroccan Lamb Couscous we’ll be eating three evenings this week. Thank you for filling in a blank in my menu for me.
Oh believe me, there’s plenty of days (especially at lunchtime) where “dressing” is just oil and vinegar poured directly on my salad. LOL! Moroccan Lamb Couscous sounds delicious – enjoy it!