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Mediterranean Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mediterranean Pasta Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mediterranean pasta salad using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mediterranean Pasta Salad:
- Take 1 red bell pepper
- Prepare 1 yellow bell pepper
- Take 1 orange bell pepper
- Make ready 16 oz feta cheese
- Get 10 oz pitted or sliced black olives
- Make ready 12 oz tricolor rotini pasta
- Take 1/2 lb cherry or grape tomatoes
- Make ready 1/2 cup olive oil
- Make ready 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
- Get 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Get 1/4 tsp onion powder
- Get 1/4 tsp dried basil
- Make ready 1 tbsp white sugar
When serving pasta as a cold pasta salad, the pasta needs to be rinsed in cold water to allow the pasta to cool off and prevent the pasta from continuing to cook and stay al dense. This also prevents the pasta from sticking together. How long will pasta salad last in the fridge. A few notes on this mediterranean pasta salad.
Instructions to make Mediterranean Pasta Salad:
- Boil water in a medium sized pan.
- Prep your peppers. Wash them first, then carefully cut the stem out of each one.
- Cut the pepper into halves from top to bottom, and rinse out what you can of the seeds.
- Cut into slices. I personally prefer to cut them in half afterwards, but that is optional.
- Put sliced peppers in a large bowl.
- Slice grape tomatoes into halves and add in with peppers. Add black olives.
- By now, you should be ready to cook your pasta. Once it is done, strain the noodles, rinse with cold water, and add it into the bowl as well.
- In a separate bowl, stir together olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice, dried basil, onion powder, garlic powder, sugar, and red pepper flakes. Add mixture into large bowl.
- Stir in crumbled feta cheese.
- Chill before serving. If you have a balsamic fig glaze, you should try drizzling some on top of the serving for an additional sweetness!
Grab a pasta that has a lot of ridges: I like using a pasta that has a lot of ridges and texture as it allows for the dressing to coat it better and get into all the nooks and crannies leaving you with a more flavorful pasta salad!; Add your favorites! This mediterranean pasta salad is LOADED with lots of ingredients. If you aren't a fan of some. Jack made a version of this Mediterranean pasta salad several years ago - but he's taken the flavors up several notches in this recipe! It's an easy pasta salad with classic Mediterranean ingredients - garlic, olives, tomatoes, peppers, artichokes and feta cheese, plus basil and mint for some additional fresh flavor.
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