Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pesto pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started 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 cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto Pasta Salad:
- Take Dressing
- Make ready Pesto (I'm using pre-made)
- Make ready Lemon Pepper Seasoning
- Get Salt and Pepper
- Prepare Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Take Salad Ingredients
- Get Cheese Ravioli (you may use Tortelini)
- Make ready Romaine Heart
- Prepare Halved Cherry Tomatoes
- Get Diced Mozzarella
- Get Basil Leaves
- Make ready Grated Parmesan Cheese
Add cold pasta and toss to coat with dressing. To assemble the pasta salad, pour all of the pesto over the pasta and toss until the pasta is lightly and evenly coated, adding a tiny splash of reserved pasta cooking water if necessary to thin it out. Then add the cherry tomatoes, arugula, remaining toasted pepitas, and any optional add-ins (olives, chickpeas and/or cheese). Add the mayonnaise and purée until smooth.
Steps 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!
Then add the cherry tomatoes, arugula, remaining toasted pepitas, and any optional add-ins (olives, chickpeas and/or cheese). Add the mayonnaise and purée until smooth. Mix pasta with pesto, pine nuts, olives, tomatoes, basil, olive oil: Put pasta in a big bowl. Mix in fresh basil pesto, green olives, and pine nuts. Gently mix in cherry tomatoes, peas, fresh basil leaves and olive oil.
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