Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mediterranean pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Transfer the pasta to a large mixing bowl. A simple Mediterranean pasta salad loaded with fresh arugula, sun-dried tomatoes, marinated artichoke hearts, pine nuts, kalamata olives, basil pesto and so much more! It's a copy-cat recipe for Cafe Express's Pasta Amore and let me just say it's actually BETTER!
Mediterranean Pasta Salad is only one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mediterranean Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mediterranean pasta salad using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mediterranean Pasta Salad:
- Prepare 1 red bell pepper
- Take 1 yellow bell pepper
- Make ready 1 orange bell pepper
- Make ready 16 oz feta cheese
- Take 10 oz pitted or sliced black olives
- Prepare 12 oz tricolor rotini pasta
- Prepare 1/2 lb cherry or grape tomatoes
- Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil
- Take 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp onion powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp dried basil
- Prepare 1 tbsp white sugar
Cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese are mixed with rotini and drizzled with homemade Greek dressing to create this colorful and appetizing pasta salad! Pasta salad is a classic summer recipe, and a must at all potlucks! This Mediterranean pasta salad has sweet heirloom cherry tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, mild red onions, salty feta crumbles, briny capers, and is tossed in the most amazing homemade red wine vinegar and herb dressing. This Mediterranean pasta salad would be the perfect base for all your favorite veggies.
Steps 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!
Feel free to raid you pantry for artichoke hearts or olives or empty your crisper drawer! You can add fresh basil, spinach, onion, bell pepper, and more. For the noodles, I used bowtie (farfalle) pasta but there are a ton of varieties that work great here! This pasta salad is fantastic as-is, but feel free to change it up to match your tastes or the ingredients in your pantry. Here are a few suggestions: Make it vegan!
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