Pesto pasta salad. 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.
It is the perfect summer pasta salad. Summer pesto pasta salad with fresh basil pesto, spiral pasta, pine nuts, olives, peas, and cherry tomatoes. Pasta salads are the ultimate summer move, especially when it's too hot to use the oven. You can cook Pesto pasta salad using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Pesto pasta salad
- You need 1/2 lb of pasta.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of prepared pesto.
- It's 1/4 cup of chopped red onion.
- You need 1 cup of chopped/crumbled feta.
- It's 1/4 cup of crasins.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of chopped broccoli.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of almonds toasted.
- Prepare 1 of optional-roasted chicken for the must eat meat folks.
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Pesto pasta salad instructions
- 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..
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