Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pesto pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This pesto pasta salad recipe is bursting with bold, fresh flavors! It's light, healthy, and sure to please everyone. It's prime time for fall picnics, and this light and fresh pesto pasta salad is just the ticket.
Pesto pasta salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Pesto pasta salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Prepare 1/2 lb pasta
- Get 3/4 cup prepared pesto
- Get 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- Prepare 1 cup chopped/crumbled feta
- Get 1/4 cup crasins
- Get 1/2 cup chopped broccoli
- Get 1/2 cup almonds toasted
- Prepare 1 optional-roasted chicken for the must eat meat folks
The perfect quick + easy side dish. Pasta salads are the ultimate summer move, especially when it's too hot to use the oven. Adding an easy homemade pesto to pasta salad elevates it to much more than a picnic or barbecue side. It has a caprese theme to it but with the basil all throughout in the pesto and some meaty bacon bits in the salad too.
Instructions 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.
A scrumptious pesto-flavored salad with crunchy lettuce and yummy noodles. Pasta salads can be served as a main dish with a side of grilled corn on the cob and fresh fruit, or as side dish served with something off the grill. The classic summertime pasta salad, with pesto, sweet cherry tomatoes, cooling fresh mozzarella, and Parmesan. To keep everything fresh and bright, make this right before serving. This pesto pasta salad is SO easy using Kirkland prepared pesto, and it is so rich and yummy, even kids will scarf it down!
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