Olive Garden Salad 2025: Complete Menu & , Prices

Olive Garden’s Famous House Salad remains one of America’s most iconic restaurant side dishes—and in 2025, it’s still the centerpiece of some of the chain’s best value deals from their entire menu.

The real standout? The Weekday Lunch Soup, Salad & Breadsticks combo — just $9.49 (400 calories) — offers unlimited salad refills, your choice of soup, and warm breadsticks for less than the cost of a standalone salad and soup purchased separately. For dinner or weekends, the same combo runs $11.99, making timing your visit worth a $2.50 savings.

This guide breaks down every salad option currently available, reveals the exact ingredients and nutrition facts (spoiler: removing croutons cuts 180 calories but oddly costs more), shares tested copycat recipes, and explains why the Jumbo salad saves you 55% per person compared to ordering individual servings.

Olive Garden Salad Menu

Olive Garden’s salads are known for their fresh ingredients, bold Italian flavors, and generous portions. The classic house salad, paired with signature dressing and warm breadsticks, delivers a crisp and satisfying start to any meal.

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Olive Garden Salad Recipe

Classic Copycat Olive Garden House Salad is the most popular version to make at home, replicating the exact flavor and texture of the restaurant’s famous unlimited salad. This olive garden salad recipe is surprisingly simple and costs just $1.50-2.00 per serving compared to $8.49 at the restaurant.

The key olive garden salad ingredients include a lettuce blend (iceberg and romaine), red cabbage, red onion, Roma tomatoes, black olives, pepperoncini peppers, croutons, and fresh Parmesan cheese. Start with 1 head of chopped iceberg lettuce and ½ head of romaine as your base. Add ¼ small red cabbage thinly sliced, ½ sliced red onion, 2 diced Roma tomatoes, ½ cup sliced black olives, 5-6 pepperoncini peppers, and 1 cup of large croutons. This makes enough to serve 6-8 people.

For the olive garden salad dressing, whisk together ¼ cup olive oil, 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar, 3 tablespoons Miracle Whip, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan, ¼ teaspoon garlic salt, and ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning. Add 1-2 tablespoons of water to reach a pourable consistency. The most important step is refrigerating the dressing for at least 2 hours—overnight is best for the flavors to fully develop.

When assembling your olive garden salad recipe, combine all the chopped vegetables in a large bowl and keep them chilled. Don’t add the olive garden salad dressing or croutons until right before serving, or everything gets soggy. Start with just ¼ cup of dressing and toss gently—you can always add more. Top with fresh grated Parmesan and cracked black pepper.

Pro shortcuts: If you don’t want to make the olive garden salad dressing from scratch, buy the bottled Olive Garden Signature Italian (made by Marzetti) at Walmart or Target for about $3-4. For ultra-crispy lettuce, soak your chopped greens in ice water for 10 minutes, then spin dry before building the salad.

The finished salad contains about 70 calories for the base vegetables, jumping to 150-160 with dressing, or 220-250 with croutons and full dressing. The olive garden salad ingredients are fresh and simple—the magic is all in that creamy, tangy dressing that tastes exactly like the restaurant version when you let it rest overnight.

Olive Garden Salad Nutrition Facts

For health-conscious diners, understanding the nutritional breakdown of Olive Garden’s salad options is crucial for making informed choices. Below is a comprehensive table showing calories, macros, and sodium content across all available salad configurations.

Item Name	Calories	Total Fat	Carbs	Protein	Sodium	Fiber
House Salad (without dressing)	70	3.5g	8g	3g	240mg	2g
Our Famous House Salad (standard)	290	21g	20g	5g	1,010mg	3g
House Salad without croutons	110	6g	10g	3g	850mg	2g
Signature Italian Dressing (1 fl oz)	80	7g	4g	1g	410mg	0g
Low-Fat Italian Dressing (1 fl oz)	30	2g	4g	0g	380mg	0g
Soup, Salad & Breadsticks	400	16g	52g	12g	1,750mg	5g
Jumbo House Salad (total, serves 6)	1,650	120g	114g	30g	5,700mg	18g
Jumbo House Salad (per serving)	275	20g	19g	5g	950mg	3g

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