Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, summer pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook summer pasta salad using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Summer pasta salad:
- Take 14.5 ounces protein plus penne pasta
- Prepare 2 cups broccoli chopped
- Prepare 2 cups asparagus broken into bite size pieces
- Make ready 1 cup chopped bell pepper chopped
- Get 1 cup grape tomatoes cut in half
- Take 1 cup simply dressed Italian dressing
- Get 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Prepare 1 cup chopped zucchini
You'll come home with a clean bowl. If you whip up a big batch of pasta ahead of time, you can assemble a pasta. Put the pasta into a bowl. Chop the tomatoes, olives, chives, basil and cucumber into pieces about half the size of the pasta and add to the bowl.
Steps to make Summer pasta salad:
- Cook pasta in boiling water for ten minutes then add chopped broccoli to the water. Cook and stir one minute. Then drain and rinse broccoli and pasta in cold water.
- Take chopped zucchini, chopped bell peppers and asparagus and sauté in olive oil for 5 - 7 minutes until tender crisp.
- Add to broccoli and pasta. Add grape tomatoes. Pour dressing over and toss thoroughly.
- Chill for 4 hours, then ready to eat. Keep uneaten salad refrigerated.
Put the pasta into a bowl. Chop the tomatoes, olives, chives, basil and cucumber into pieces about half the size of the pasta and add to the bowl. Squash the garlic cloves out of their skins and mush in a pestle and mortar. Add the vinegar, oil and seasoning. Drizzle this over the salad, adding a little more seasoning to taste.
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