Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pesto pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pesto Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Pesto Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pesto pasta salad using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto Pasta Salad:
- Prepare Dressing
- Prepare 1/4 cup Pesto (I'm using pre-made)
- Prepare 1 tbsp Lemon Pepper Seasoning
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Salt and Pepper
- Make ready 3 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Make ready Salad Ingredients
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup Cheese Ravioli (you may use Tortelini)
- Make ready 1 Romaine Heart
- Make ready 10 Halved Cherry Tomatoes
- Make ready 1/2 cup Diced Mozzarella
- Take 3 Basil Leaves
- Take 1/4 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
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:
- Wisk all of the dressing ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
- Boil and drain the pasta according to the package instructions.
- While the pasta is still hot, toss the dressing into the pasta. Let it cool down slightly.
- Prep your romaine heart and basil. Rinse and dry your romaine, remove the core, and slice.
- Roughly chop your basil and mix with your romaine.
- Toss the greens, halved cherry tomatoes, and cheeses into your pasta. The warmth of the pasta will slightly wilt the basil and bring out the scent.
- …and you're done! You may chill the pasta salad or eat while it's warm!
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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