Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mediterranean pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mediterranean Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Mediterranean Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Gradually whisk in enough of the oil to make a smooth dressing; season with salt and pepper. Combine the sun-dried tomatoes, basil, onion, pepperoncini, olives and oregano in a bowl. Transfer pasta to a medium mixing bowl, and add roasted red peppers, olives, and feta cheese. Toss with olive oil mixture and lemon juice.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mediterranean pasta salad using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mediterranean Pasta Salad:
- Get 1 red bell pepper
- Make ready 1 yellow bell pepper
- Make ready 1 orange bell pepper
- Prepare 16 oz feta cheese
- Take 10 oz pitted or sliced black olives
- Take 12 oz tricolor rotini pasta
- Make ready 1/2 lb cherry or grape tomatoes
- Take 1/2 cup olive oil
- Take 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
- Prepare 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Take 1/4 tsp onion powder
- Get 1/4 tsp dried basil
- Get 1 tbsp white sugar
In a large bowl combine the prepared pasta, chopped artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, capers, scallions, and parsley. With briny olives, juicy cherry tomatoes, spicy arugula, purple pops of red onion, and creamy feta crumbled throughout, this Mediterranean pasta salad is as bright and sunny as a warm summer day. How mayo-based salads became de rigueur for summer parties is beyond us. It's an easy pasta salad with classic Mediterranean ingredients - garlic, olives, tomatoes, peppers, artichokes and feta cheese, plus basil and mint for some additional fresh flavor.
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!
How mayo-based salads became de rigueur for summer parties is beyond us. It's an easy pasta salad with classic Mediterranean ingredients - garlic, olives, tomatoes, peppers, artichokes and feta cheese, plus basil and mint for some additional fresh flavor. A tangy oregano-lemon vinaigrette finishes it off. You can store Mediterranean Pasta Salad in the fridge, sealed in an airtight container, for up to four days. But, if you had this dish sitting out for any amount of time at a party, I'd toss any leftovers, just to be safe.
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