greek pasta salad

 

This is my standard pasta salad that I make, typically on the weekend. It's best when fresh, but it will keep a couple days. Like most salads, I might not have all the ingredients on hand, but I throw whatever I have into it and it comes out fine.

 

Ingredients

 

• 3 cups of uncooked corkscrew tricolor pasta
• 1 clove garlic
• water for boiling
• 1 lemon for juice or bottled lemon juice, or apple cider vinegar if not available
• 2 carrots
• 2 or 3 green onions
• 1 can of three bean salad
• 1 can of garbanzo beans, rinsed
• 1 small jar of marinated artichoke kearts
• 10 green salad olives
• 1-2 cups mayo
• 2 tablespoons brown mustard
• 2 tablespoons of parmesean, grated (but it's better if not from the shakey bottle)
• 3 ounces of feta cheese, cubed if not already crumbled
• 1/2 bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
• basil, perferably fresh
• oregano, preferably fresh
• salt, pepper, tony's to taste

 

 

Boil the pasta with salt and the whole garlic clove. As it boils assemble the rest of the salad. Grate the carrots, chop the green onions, add the canned items, chop the green olives. when the pasta is al dente, drain and immediatley rinse with cold water so that it stops cooking. Find and discard the garlic (if you don't do this then add some garlic powder to the salad). Let it drain while further assembling. Adding it too soon will make the salad watery. Chop the fresh parsley and whatever other fresh herbs are on hand. Dried is okay too but use less because the flavor is concentrated. After adding the pasta to the pot, add the mayo and mustard and mix well. The mayo I kind of eyeball it so my quantities might be wrong.

 

If you want to be super-fancy, serve it on a bed of lettuce.

 

It's best fresh but it will; keep for a couple days. If it has sit for a while, some lemon juice added to it might freshen it up. I've also added ranch dressing to it to wake it up. I bet italian would dress it up too.

 

shopping list:

rotini

three beans salad

artichoke hearts

feta cheese

parmesan

mayo

carrots

 

sides: soup

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