Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pesto pasta salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Pesto pasta salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
Cook the pasta in salted water according to package instructions. Then drain it and rinse in cold water. Cover and refrigerate pasta until cold.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pesto pasta salad using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta salad:
- Get 1/2 lb pasta
- Take 3/4 cup prepared pesto
- Make ready 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- Make ready 1 cup chopped/crumbled feta
- Make ready 1/4 cup crasins
- Take 1/2 cup chopped broccoli
- Prepare 1/2 cup almonds toasted
- Make ready 1 optional-roasted chicken for the must eat meat folks
Rotini pasta is tossed with pesto, fresh mozzarella, and tomatoes for a colorful pasta version of Caprese salad. Zesty pesto, mellowed and thickened with a little mayonnaise, makes a lovely sauce. I go all-out green by adding sweet peas to both the pesto sauce and the pasta. Toasted pine nuts add flavor and crunch.
Steps to make Pesto pasta salad:
- Cook pasta. Best options include bowtie but anything works from orzo to elbow
- Chop onion and broccoli add to bowl
- Add feta and crasins
- Add pesto and hot pasta mix well adding a bit more pesto to taste.
- Serve warm add toasted almonds to each serving
- If you must roasted chicken can be added for meat eaters.
And, finally, mozzarella pearls and fresh basil jazz the whole dish up. Stir in the crème fraîche followed by the pesto, then leave to cool. When the pasta is cool, stir in the cucumber, tomatoes and peas followed by the basil leaves. Pasta salads are the ultimate summer move, especially when it's too hot to use the oven. They're easy yet delicious and come together quickly, plus they don't require much heat.
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