Bow-Tie Pasta Salad • Kath Eats

This bow-tie pasta salad leans Italian with roasted tomatoes, crimson peppers, kalamata olives and mozzarella balls. Easy and simple to assemble, an Italian lemon-yogurt dressing ties all of it collectively.

Elevate your hand for those who suppose the form of pasta impacts its style? I LOVE wagon wheel and bow-tie. They’re further chewy! This recipe for a bow-tie pasta salad was impressed by an previous recipe I made on the weblog within the earliest of days. We used to do plenty of picnicking and this was a favourite to carry to share with a gaggle. 

Generally, pasta salads are really easy to make and so they make my favourite summer time facet dishes. Start by cooking pasta, chop up some extra elements, and blend all of it along with a dressing. It’s nice heat, chilled, made on a prep day, taken on a hike, or as a principal dish with protein on high (blacked rooster or sausage rounds can be so good on this one!). I really like how straightforward it’s to eat chilly pasta salad for days. 

This Italian pasta salad is my new favourite. I couldn’t cease consuming it the day I made it! 

Bow-Tie Pasta Salad

This bow tie pasta salad recipe calls for easy elements with an Italian theme: roasted tomatoes and bell pepper, contemporary mozzarella balls and juicy kalamata olives. Plus a great deal of chopped contemporary basil. You may definitely combine and match totally different elements that you simply might need readily available: black olives, crimson onions, roasted zucchini, inexperienced beans. 

The lemon-yogurt Italian dressing is scrumptious and can sink into the pasta because it chills. Greek yogurt provides a bit extra protein. I really like so as to add it to recipes for a bit extra vitamin than mayonnaise alone. Italian seasoning goes a protracted approach to marry the flavors of the entire recipe. In fact when you’ve got contemporary herbs, use extra of them! I purchased basil for this recipe, however when you’ve got extra in your backyard, the extra the merrier. Contemporary oregano or Italian parsley can be nice as nicely.

I meant to zest my lemon earlier than – I might suggest including the zest to your dish! For those who don’t have lemon, crimson wine vinegar works, too. 

You can additionally flip this recipe right into a pasta salad salad by including freshly chopped spinach or kale. 

Learn how to Make Bow-tie Pasta Salad

Components

• 16 oz bundle bowtie pasta
• 10 ounce container cherry tomatoes
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 cup contemporary basil
• 8 ounce bundle mozzarella (about 1.5 cups)
• 1.5 cups kalamata olives

For the salad dressing

• 1 cup complete milk Greek yogurt
• Juice of 1 lemon, about 3-4 tbsp of juice
• 1 tsp Dijon mustard
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 tbsp Italian seasoning
• Salt and pepper to style

Directions

Step 1: Preheat oven to 450 levels.

Step 2: Prepare dinner, drain, and rinse pasta

Carry a big pot of salted water to boil. Prepare dinner pasta till al dente. Rinse with chilly water to maintain from sticking.

Step 3: Prep produce

Wash contemporary produce. Chop pepper, halve tomatoes, juice the lemon, chop the basil.

Step 4: Prep olives and mozzarella

Drain olives and mozzarella. Halve olives and quarter mozzarella balls. Make sure to eat some!

Step 5: Roast tomatoes and peppers

Prepare tomatoes and peppers on a sheet pan (with tomatoes lower facet up so the juices keep inside) and drizzle with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast for 10 minutes. Permit to chill barely. I LOVE this basting oil from Wegmans. You probably have an herby olive oil, be at liberty to make use of it! Or add extra Italian seasoning if you need. 

Step 6: Make the dressing

Mix yogurt, lemon juice, mustard, olive oil, Italian seasoning and salt and pepper in a jar or bowl and blend nicely.

Step 7: Combine

Add pasta again to giant pot or a big bowl and add all different elements. Toss till nicely blended. Season with any extra salt and pepper you need. 

Including the dressing whereas mixing, too.

Step 8: Serve

Serve heat, chilled, as a facet or as a principal with rooster, fish, sausage.

Learn how to retailer it

Retailer in an air-tight container within the fridge. If it will get a bit of dry, you’ll be able to add a drizzle of olive oil and a few extra lemon to brighten it up. 

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