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Summer pesto pasta salad with fresh basil pesto, spiral pasta, pine nuts, olives, peas, and cherry tomatoes. Pasta salad lasts for days in the fridge, making it great for potlucks and picnics. Before tossing the pesto with the pasta, you'll add three simple upgrades: lemon juice, mayo, and spinach.
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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta salad:
- Make ready 1/2 lb pasta
- Take 3/4 cup prepared pesto
- Take 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- Prepare 1 cup chopped/crumbled feta
- Prepare 1/4 cup crasins
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped broccoli
- Prepare 1/2 cup almonds toasted
- Prepare 1 optional-roasted chicken for the must eat meat folks
Pesto Pasta Salad. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. 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. Enjoy this veggie pesto pasta salad with cucumber, peas, cherry tomatoes and basil for an easy family meal. It's great for a packed lunch or summery picnic.
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.
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. A scrumptious pesto-flavored salad with crunchy lettuce and yummy noodles. One of my favorite pasta salads to make and eat is a cold pesto penne pasta filled with sweet peas and artichoke hearts in a creamy pesto dressing.
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