Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta
I love this Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta, and this combination is great with Basil Vinaigrette used as the dressing! And salads like this are a great reason to always keep hearts of palm in your pantry!
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Years ago Hearts of Palm appeared in big jars at my Costco, and I was overjoyed. I’d learned to like them while working at a French restaurant in college, but they were expensive in the grocery store, so I hadn’t used them that much.
For a while the hearts of palm seemed to appear every summer, and I always stocked up when I saw them. And one of those times when I had plenty of hearts of palm on hand I came up with this amazing Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta.
I love this type of summer salad which combines all my favorite summer flavors. The recipe also features basil vinaigrette, one of my favorite summer treats and something I love to drizzle over garden tomatoes when I have lots of fresh basil. And it’s summer tomato season right now so today I’m reminding you about this favorite salad for Friday Favorites!
Sadly, those big jars of hearts of palm no longer show up at Costco, but I love this Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta so much that now I’d just splurge on a small jar from the grocery store so I could make it.
What ingredients do you need for this recipe?
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- tomatoes, cut up into chunks
- Hearts of Palm (affiliate link)
- black olives
- crumbled feta
- basil vinaigrette
What are Hearts of Palm?
Hearts of palm are a slightly-crunchy vegetable that’s harvested from the center of domesticated palm trees. They used to be a controversial ingredient, but now harvesting methods don’t damage the trees and wild palms are protected in many places. And Hearts of Palm are so delicious! I love them so much I’ve made them one of my Kalyn’s Kitchen Picks! And here’s more about Hearts of Palm and how to use them.
How low in carbs is this Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm?
This amazing salad with some of my favorite summer ingredients only has about 6 net carbs per serving!
Where can you buy Hearts of Palm?
Most grocery stores will sell Hearts of Palm, sold near the olives and artichokes in cans and jars, but they are often pricey at a regular grocery store. You can buy hearts of Palm at Amazon.com (affiliate link) and occasionally you’ll find some there that are a bit more inexpensive. (Amazon even carries those two packs of big jars like I loved so much at Costco, but they were definitely more of a bargain at Costco, or course!)
What if you don’t have fresh basil to make the Basil Vinaigrette?
If you don’t have fresh basil to puree or frozen basil in the freezer, you can definitely make the dressing for this salad with purchased Basil Pesto as well.
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How to make Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta:
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- I used 6 small tomatoes from my garden; you could also use about 1 cup of grape tomatoes cut in half.
- If you’re using large tomatoes, drain in a colander after you cut them.
- Slice the hearts of palm and measure out the olives.
- In a large salad bowl layer the tomatoes, hearts of palm, and olives.
- Drizzle Basil Vinaigrette over the salad. Then crumble Feta and sprinkle it over the salad. Yum!
Make it a Low-Carb Meal:
This salad with tomatoes and hearts of palm would be delicious with any of my 35 Amazing Low-Carb and Keto Grilling Recipes for a summer dinner!
More Recipes with Hearts of Palm:
- Heart of Palm Salad with Tomato and Avocado
- Green Bean Salad with Hearts of Palm
- Asparagus and Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm
- Lemony Shrimp Salad with Avocado, Heart of Palm, and Feta
Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta
The summer flavors in this Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta are enhanced by the amazing Basil Vinaigrette used as the dressing.
Ingredients
- 6 small garden tomatoes, cut up into chunks (see notes)
- 1 cup hearts of palm, sliced (or more)
- 1/2 cup black olives
- 1/4 cup crumbled feta
- 1/3 cup basil vinaigrette
Instructions
- Wash tomatoes and cut into chunks; draining them in a colander if the tomatoes are really juicy.
- Slice the hearts of palm, measure the olives, and crumble the Feta.
- In salad bowl, layer tomatoes, hearts of palm, and olives.
- Drizzle basil vinaigrette over veggies, then crumble feta over.
- This will keep for a day in the fridge, but it’s definitely best the day it’s made.
Notes
If you don't have garden tomtoes, use about 1 generous cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half. I use my basil vinaigrette for this recipe.
Recipe created by Kalyn.
Nutrition Information
Yield
4Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 97Total Fat 6gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 8mgSodium 445mgCarbohydrates 9gFiber 3gSugar 5gProtein 4g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta is a perfect side dish for most low-carb eating plans or any phase of the original South Beach Diet. For low-carb basil vinaigrette, be sure to choose a vinaigrette with less than 2 grams of sugar per serving.
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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This salad recipe with tomatoes, hearts of palm, olives, and Feta was first posted in 2006 when I got infatuated with those big jars of hearts of palm at Costco! It was last updated with more information in 2024.
31 Comments on “Tomato Salad with Hearts of Palm, Olives, and Feta”
How can this possibly be 445 g. carbohydrate? Is that a typo?
You are reading the nutritional info wrong. The amount is after the word:
Calories: 97 Total Fat: 6g Saturated Fat: 2g Trans Fat: 0g
Unsaturated Fat: 3g Cholesterol: 8mg Sodium: 445mg
Carbohydrates: 9g Fiber: 3g Sugar: 5g Protein: 4g
I do wish I could figure out how to put spaces in to make it easier to read, but I haven’t been able to get that to work.
Julia, my pleasure. So glad you liked it!
This was SO delicious!!!! Thank you so much for the recipe!!!
Hearts of Palm are the inner "heart" of the palm tree. You can find out a lot about them from Google!
Great salad! Does anyone know anything about why hearts of palm are called hearts of palm?
Thanks Sam and Maureen. I made this last night for a dinner party, and it was a huge hit.
What a fabulous salad. We love hearts of palm, but I tend to forget about them. I will go to my cupboard right now…
Sam
I like hearts of palm and use it in salads a lot but none that look this good.
This is so right up my alley. I love hearts of palm and have to say, I've never seen them at Costco. I'll have to look next time I'm there. This is perfect to use summer tomatoes and basil.
I made this last night with minor variations and it was FABULOUS! I used low fat Feta and since I had very little fresh basil, I used Kraft Calorie Wise Greek Salad dressing. Totally delicious. Thanks, Kalyn! Judith from Calgary, AB
I love hearts of palm, but haven’t had it in years! This is a beautiful looking salad. Perfect for the warm weather (if it every gets here). 🙂
Kalyn, that’s the only salad with tomatoes he’ll eat! 🙂
It’s delicious and you’ve made me realize I haven’t made it in a while now.
This is the first that I have heard of hearts of palms. They sound interesting! I will have to keep an eye out for them. That salad looks good. Just look are the vibrant red of the tomatoes!
You just can’t go wrong with olives and feta!!
Erin, thanks for the tip! Utah (finally!) got a Whole Foods and it’s right by my house. I see why they call it Whole paycheck, but I do buy some things there!
I adore hearts of palm. I agree with you that they are quite a luxury unless you are fortunate enough to find them for less. I recently discovered that Whole Foods’ 365 brand actually carries really tasty hearts of palm canned at a reasonable price. jarred is usually better, but the can price is quite good.
I love the idea of using it with the olives and feta.
Yumm I love hearts of palm! I’m going to have to pick some up the next time I’m at the market.
Beautiful! I miss feta. Sniff. Hearts of palm- so yummy.
Kalyn I don’t remember when I first discovered hearts of palm but it was long after college. That would be really neat if Sam’s would carry them here. They will remain a special treat until that time. This is just the kind of salad I use them in for a special treat!
This is SO gorgeous – the colors in this salad, wow. “Fresh” doesn’t always make one hungry – but this one sure did. Thanks for the post. 🙂
aah!! that looks yummy!! and so fresh Kalyn!
This will be such a great recipe for the 90 degree weather we’ve been having.
I didn’t know hearts of palm belonged more to french than american kitchen. To me they are so common, I don’t imagine it isn’t the same in other occidental countries. In france too, they can be quite expensive, depending of their quality or box (glass or tin jar). I like them too, but don’t think about buying some – should do next time I do shopping.
I love the photo and the recipe too. Now that tomatoes are starting to be in season, I must try it. In fact, I bought a small plant today at the market: we’ll see what happens.
Looks fabulous. Our Costco is funny that way, too–just when you start to depend on finding an ingredient there, poof!–it’s gone.
Comments before this one were from April 2006 when I first posted this recipe. My original post had my two goals for eating local that year (since May was the “eat local” month in 2006 and nothing is growing in Utah in May. If anyone is still interested, my two goals were to grow as much of my own food as I could and not to waste food. I’m still doing pretty well with those goals. (I also updated the photo in the post, which was pretty awful in the original one.)
Love the photo, love the ingredients. This one is definitely on the menu this week.
Thanks for sharing.
Fran, I know you will love it.
CC, I already do preserve the things from my garden to the max, so I don’t need that goal. And I do use the local salt too, which is quite good. I buy local foods from the Farmers Market when I go, which is not too often, since I grow my own food.
Kalyn, I would add to your list of goals:
3) Preserve what you grow so you can use it during the coming year.
4) Make a teensy effort to locate local foods; I know May is the wrong month for Utah, but… eh.
5) Revel in your local salt!
This has wonderful ingredients. Thanks for another idea for the hearts of palm. Can’t wait to try it. I agree with you about eating locally & not wasting. I think we would have to live in paradise to eat totally local. Depending on the garden for some things as well as the market.