Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pesto pasta salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pesto pasta salad is something which I have loved my whole life.
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 recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pesto pasta salad using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta salad:
- Get 1/2 lb pasta
- Get 3/4 cup prepared pesto
- Take 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- Prepare 1 cup chopped/crumbled feta
- Get 1/4 cup crasins
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped broccoli
- Get 1/2 cup almonds toasted
- Get 1 optional-roasted chicken for the must eat meat folks
Speaking of good food, you guys are going to LOVE this Pesto Pasta Salad. 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. 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.
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.
Classic pasta salad made with creamy pesto dressing and roasted tomatoes. The perfect quick + easy side dish. This chicken pesto pasta salad is quick, easy, and a great way to use up leftover chicken. To make this pesto pasta salad really simple, I used rotisserie chicken. You can use any pre-cooked chicken.
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