Recipe: Delicious Mediterranean Pasta Salad

Mediterranean Pasta Salad. Transfer the pasta to a large mixing bowl. Mediterranean Pasta Salad Mediterranean Pasta Salad. A simple Mediterranean pasta salad loaded with fresh arugula, sun-dried tomatoes, marinated artichoke hearts, pine nuts, kalamata olives, basil pesto and so much more!

Jack made a version of this Mediterranean pasta salad several years ago - but he's taken the flavors up several notches in this recipe! It's an easy pasta salad with classic Mediterranean ingredients - garlic, olives, tomatoes, peppers, artichokes and feta cheese, plus basil and mint for some additional fresh flavor. Mediterranean Pasta Salad, out of all the pasta salads a home chef can have in their recipe box, is one of the best to wow a crowd! You can cook Mediterranean Pasta Salad using 15 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mediterranean Pasta Salad

1. Prepare 1 box of Pasta (rotini recommended).
2. Prepare 1 cup of Sliced kalamata olives.
3. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of Broccoli.
4. It's 1 cup of Sundried tomatoes.
5. You need 1 cup of Chopped red onions.
6. It's 2 clove of Minced garlic.
7. It's 1 cup of Crumbled feta cheese.
8. Prepare of dressing.
9. You need 3/4 cup of Olive oil.
10. It's 1/4 cup of Lemon juice.
11. Prepare of Spices.
12. Prepare 1 of Salt.
13. Prepare 1 of Black pepper.
14. You need 1 of as needed Additional lemon juice.
15. Prepare 3/4 cup of Fresh mint.

Cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, and feta cheese are mixed with rotini and drizzled with homemade Greek dressing to create this colorful and appetizing pasta salad! This pasta salad is fantastic as-is, but feel free to change it up to match your tastes or the ingredients in your pantry. Here are a few suggestions: Make it vegan! Use olives or sun dried tomatoes in place of the feta.

Mediterranean Pasta Salad step by step

1. Cook pasta to al dente, rinse in cold water to cool once done.
2. Sauté broccoli, onion, and garlic until mostly, but not fully, cooked. (So it can be soft but still a little crunchy).
3. Halve the olives, and slice the sun dried tomatoes..
4. Chop up the mint so that it is nearly minced.
5. Mix together steps 1-4.
6. Whisk the olive oil and lemon juice together and drizzle over the pasta salad.
7. Add salt, pepper, and more lemon juice as needed.
8. Sprinkle feta on top.
9. Enjoy!.

Use gluten-free pasta or quinoa in place of traditional noodles. Pasta salad is a classic summer recipe, and a must at all potlucks! This Mediterranean pasta salad has sweet heirloom cherry tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, mild red onions, salty feta crumbles, briny capers, and is tossed in the most amazing homemade red wine vinegar and herb dressing. This Mediterranean pasta salad is loaded with fresh arugula, roasted red peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, crumbled feta cheese, marinated artichoke hearts, Kalamata olives, and fresh parsley. The homemade Italian dressing is a mixture of extra virgin olive oil, white wine vinegar, minced garlic, dried oregano, and dried.