Flag of Italy with your plate: Colorful pasta salad

Great pasta, basil pesto, roasted cherry tomatoes and mozzarella balls. This is what Efrat Lichtenstadt's excellent, invested pasta salad looks like and we have all the preparation steps for you

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Colorful pasta salad

Recipe By: Efrat Lichtenstein, Sugat

• 30 minutes work
• 90 minutes total
• Medium Difficulty Level
• 4 diners

SaladsFast cheese for vegetarian foodstuffs

Photography and Editing: Efrat Lichtenstein and Shlomi Arbiv

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Ingredients

• For pasta

  • 1 pack of Fusilian pasta (500 g)
  • Boiling and salted water (for pasta cooking)

• To Pesto

  • 100 fresh basil leaves, without the stems (whole bunch)
  • 80 grackles unprocessed and not roasted (about 3/4 cup)
  • 50 g grated parmesan (about 3/4 cup)
  • ½ high quality olive oil (or less)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 garlic tooth

• For roasted tomatoes

  • 500 grams of cherry tomatoes (about 30 tomatoes)
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • Salty salt
  • Careful

• For submission

  • 100 grams of fresh mozzarella (preferably mozzarella balls)
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar

Preparation

How to make a colorful pasta salad?

• Prepare the pasta: Boil a pot of salted water and cook according to the manufacturer's instructions.

• Prepare the pesto: Grind all the ingredients except the oil in a food processor. Gradually add the oil until it reaches the desired texture. Taste and correct seasoning with salt / garlic seasoning if needed.

• Prepare the roasted tomatoes: Preheat oven to 200 degrees and line the oven with baking paper.

• Cut the tomato lengthwise into halves and place in a large bowl. Add the olive oil, salt and pepper and mix.

• Place the seasoned tomatoes on the pan (without the juice and oil) and with the rind down.

• Put in the oven and bake 40-60 minutes until the tomatoes shrink and look ready. Remove from oven and cool.

• Ingredients and serve the salad: Mix the prepared pasta with 3 tablespoons of the pesto (add more if needed). Add the roasted tomatoes and mozzarella, season with balsamic vinegar and eat immediately.

  Pasta salad (Efrat Liechtenstein)

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