Recipe: Delicious Refreshing Summer Greek Pasta Salad

Refreshing Summer Greek Pasta Salad. One of our favorite beautiful salads is this Greek Fresh Pasta Salad with rainbow veggies and chickpeas. While you can certainly make this Easy Greek Salad all year long, it gets heavily used in summer season. Fresh produce based meals feel perfect this time of year.

Pasta salads are a great way to get a healthy serving of veggies and some zesty flavors. This light and lively Greek pasta salad is great for lunches, picnics. Drain and wash with cold water and let cool. You can cook Refreshing Summer Greek Pasta Salad using 17 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Refreshing Summer Greek Pasta Salad

1. It's 2 cups of your favorite pasta (uncooked).
2. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of cherry or plum tomatoes (halved).
3. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of cucumber (peeled and cubed).
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of red onion (sliced and cut about an inch long).
5. You need 1/8 cup of feta cheese crumbles.
6. You need 1/8 cup of Greek olives (sliced).
7. You need 1/16 cup of shaved Parmesan.
8. Prepare of Dressing:.
9. It's 1/4 cup of Olive Oil (or other neutral oil).
10. It's 4 tbs of red wine vinegar.
11. You need 1 tbs of fresh squeezed lemon juice.
12. You need 2 tsp of garlic (minced).
13. It's 2 tsp of dried oregano.
14. You need 1 tsp of honey.
15. It's 1/2 tsp of kosher salt.
16. You need 1/2 tsp of fresh cracked black pepper.
17. It's 1/2 tsp of crushed red pepper.

Combine all dressing ingredients and whisk to fully mix. Add all chopped veggies, cheeses and dressing to cooled pasta and toss. Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving. Refreshing Summer Greek Pasta Salad step by step.

Refreshing Summer Greek Pasta Salad step by step

1. Cook pasta to package directions. Drain and wash with cold water and let cool..
2. Combine all dressing ingredients and whisk to fully mix..
3. Add all chopped veggies, cheeses and dressing to cooled pasta and toss. Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving. ENJOY!!.

Drain and wash with cold water and let cool. Combine all dressing ingredients and whisk to fully mix. Add all chopped veggies, cheeses and dressing to cooled pasta and toss. Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving. Pasta (wheat), canola oil, feta cheese (milk), tomato, green pepper, filtered water, onion, white wine vinegar (sulphites), white vinegar, sea salt, garlic puree.