Description
My recipe for greek-style pasta salad.
Ingredients
- Tri-color Spiral Pasta
- Red Onion
- Green Onions
- Green Pepper
- Red Pepper
- Yellow Pepper
- Grape Tomatoes
- Cucumber
- Kalamata Olive
- Fresh Basil Leaves
- Fresh Parsley
- Fresh Mint Leaves
- Feta Cheese
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Fresh Lemon Zest
- Lemon Juice
- Red Wine Vinegar
- Fresh Garlic Cloves
- Dried Greek Oregano
- Fresh Ground Black Pepper
- Fine Sea Salt
Instructions
- Prepare the dressing: grate 1 / 2 teaspoon fresh lemon zest
- Knead and cut lemons into halves to juice, yielding 2 1 / 2 tablespoons juice
- Whisk together remaining ingredients well
- Set aside
- Bring bring 6 quarts water to a boil in a large pot
- Add 1 1 / 2 tablespoons kosher salt and spiral pasta, returning to boiling
- Cook pasta according to package directions
- Drain pasta well
- Return pasta to pot and toss with a very small amount of olive oil to prevent sticking
- Let stand to cool
- Prep all pasta salad vegetables and fresh herbs to specifications
- Place prepped vegetables into a large bowl
- Add the cooled pasta to vegetables in bowl, combining well
- Add 4-6 ounces cubed or crumbled feta cheese, without tossing
- Whisk the dressing mixture again
- Pour the dressing evenly over pasta salad
- Gently fold pasta salad over from the bottom a few times to evenly distribute the dressing and combine feta cheese
- Chill pasta salad at least 2 hours to overnight
- Garnish pasta salad with parsley sprig, or fresh basil or mint leaves
- Serve and enjoy!