Who doesn't love a good pasta salad? I'm
going to show you how to make a simple
pasta salad with a fantastic Italian
dressing.
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Welcome back to our kitchen where we
show you how to make delicious family
friendly recipes. Pasta salad makes a
great lunch a fantastic side dish and it
also works really well on the barbecue
party table in the summer. I'm also going
to make a delicious Italian style
dressing. We're going to start by cooking
the pasta,
I've got 500 grams which is a little
over a pound of fusilli pasta here but
you can use whatever pasta shapes you
like. Cook the pasta as per the pack
instructions, for mine that's 12 minutes.
While the pasta is cooking we're going
to make the Italian dressing, it's a
really simple dressing you just bung all
the ingredients in together and give it
a good mix. I'm using this jam jar and we
start by adding 120 mil or 1/2 a cup of
good olive oil.
Next in goes three tablespoons of white
wine vinegar, the zest and juice of half
a lemon
and a clove of minced garlic, then we add
in a teaspoon of sugar, half a teaspoon
of dried oregano, a teaspoon of salt
flakes, quarter of a teaspoon of black
pepper and two tablespoons of finely
chopped fresh parsley. Give that a good
mix together.
Okay that's a salad
dressing done now once the pastas ready
we're gonna drain it in a colander over
the sink and then run it under some cold
water and that will stop the cooking
process and stop the pasta from sticking
together.
Transfer the cooked pasta to a large
serving bowl.
Now we're going to add in some lovely
color and flavor, I'm going with some
chopped multicoloured tomatoes, mozzarella
pearls, baby cucumbers, red onion, pea
shoots and a little bit of fresh parsley,
but you can replace with whatever
veggies you like such as peppers or
radish. Add those all to the serving bowl.
Drizzle over half the dressing and then
toss everything together. What's the
likelihood have been mixing this without
it going everywhere gently gently
And that's how to make a super simple
pasta salad, sprinkle it with a little
bit of parsley and serve with that
remaining dressing, and it makes a great
lunch or a side dish hope you enjoyed
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