Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Pesto Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Pesto Pasta Salad is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pesto pasta salad using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pesto Pasta Salad:
- Prepare Dressing
- Take 1/4 cup Pesto (I'm using pre-made)
- Prepare 1 tbsp Lemon Pepper Seasoning
- Take 1/4 tsp Salt and Pepper
- Prepare 3 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Make ready Salad Ingredients
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup Cheese Ravioli (you may use Tortelini)
- Get 1 Romaine Heart
- Make ready 10 Halved Cherry Tomatoes
- Get 1/2 cup Diced Mozzarella
- Make ready 3 Basil Leaves
- Take 1/4 cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
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. 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.
Instructions to make Pesto Pasta Salad:
- Wisk all of the dressing ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
- Boil and drain the pasta according to the package instructions.
- While the pasta is still hot, toss the dressing into the pasta. Let it cool down slightly.
- Prep your romaine heart and basil. Rinse and dry your romaine, remove the core, and slice.
- Roughly chop your basil and mix with your romaine.
- Toss the greens, halved cherry tomatoes, and cheeses into your pasta. The warmth of the pasta will slightly wilt the basil and bring out the scent.
- …and you're done! You may chill the pasta salad or eat while it's warm!
You can use any pre-cooked chicken. This pesto pasta salad is SO easy using Kirkland prepared pesto, and it is so rich and yummy, even kids will scarf it down! I have served this pesto pasta salad at many events, and someone always. Pesto Pasta SaladSimply Recipes. salad, pepper, pasta salad, green olives, fresh basil leaves and Gluten-Free Pesto Caprese Pasta SaladAncient Harvest. kale, pasta, salt, cherry tomatoes, basil. 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.
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