Mediterranean Pasta Salad –
On the lookout for a scrumptious, easy-to-make pasta salad to pack up for picnics or lunchboxes? You discovered it! This scrumptious Mediterranean Pasta Salad has cherries, artichoke hearts, Kalamata olives, pine nuts, feta cheese, recent basil and oregano, and a scrumptious lemon dressing with recent lemon zest. Wow, that’s really a laundry record of a few of my favourite components!
My love for pasta salad is aware of no bounds. I really might eat a scrumptious pasta salad day by day of my life. I got here up with this pasta salad for my Shakespeare within the Park picnic, primarily as a result of I didn’t really feel like going to the shop and needed to make a brand new recipe utilizing components I had readily available.
The lemon zest and recent herbs make a big distinction so don’t skip it. Use actually high-quality feta for this dish. Cucumbers and roasted purple pepper would even be scrumptious additions to this already wonderful pasta salad. When you needed to make it heartier, it could be scrumptious with my Excellent Grilled Rooster, salmon, or shrimp.
I hope you like this mixture as a lot as I do! You may after all use no matter pasta you’d like however these little shells are excellent as a result of the feta and pine nuts disguise inside.
Mediterranean Pasta Salad
Serves 6-8
1 pound pasta
1/4 cup lemon juice (a big lemon)
1/4 cup olive oil
Salt, pepper, zest of half a lemon
1.5 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
1/3 cup marinated artichoke hearts, halved
1/2 cup Kalamata olives, chopped
8 oz feta cheese block, crumbled
1/4 cup pine nuts
1/4 cup recent basil, chopped
1 Tbsp recent oregano
- Cook dinner pasta al dente in response to package deal directions. Drain.
- Whisk collectively 1/4 freshly squeezed lemon juice, 1/4 further virgin olive oil, zest of half a lemon, and season to style with salt and pepper.
- Toss pasta with dressing. Let sit for 10-20 minutes. Stir in remaining components. Chill no less than an hour earlier than serving. Excellent for picnics or lunchboxes!
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