Steps to Prepare Pesto Pasta Salad in 19 Minutes for Beginners

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Pesto Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Pesto Pasta Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pesto pasta salad using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto Pasta Salad:

1. Take Dressing
2. Get 1/4 cup Pesto (I'm using pre-made)
3. Take 1 tbsp Lemon Pepper Seasoning
4. Take 1/4 tsp Salt and Pepper
5. Prepare 3 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
6. Take Salad Ingredients
7. Get 1 1/2 cup Cheese Ravioli (you may use Tortelini)
8. Take 1 Romaine Heart
9. Prepare 10 Halved Cherry Tomatoes
10. Make ready 1/2 cup Diced Mozzarella
11. Make ready 3 Basil Leaves
12. Prepare 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:

1. Wisk all of the dressing ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
2. Boil and drain the pasta according to the package instructions.
3. While the pasta is still hot, toss the dressing into the pasta. Let it cool down slightly.
4. Prep your romaine heart and basil. Rinse and dry your romaine, remove the core, and slice.
5. Roughly chop your basil and mix with your romaine.
6. 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.
7. …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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