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Pesto pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Pesto pasta salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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 particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pesto pasta salad using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta salad:

1. Prepare 1/2 lb pasta
2. Take 3/4 cup prepared pesto
3. Prepare 1/4 cup chopped red onion
4. Make ready 1 cup chopped/crumbled feta
5. Get 1/4 cup crasins
6. Make ready 1/2 cup chopped broccoli
7. Make ready 1/2 cup almonds toasted
8. Get 1 optional-roasted chicken for the must eat meat folks

Before tossing the pesto with the pasta, you'll add three simple upgrades: lemon juice, mayo, and spinach. Pasta salads can be served as a main dish with a side of grilled corn on the cob and fresh fruit, or as side dish served with something off the grill. 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. Cook pasta. Best options include bowtie but anything works from orzo to elbow
2. Chop onion and broccoli add to bowl
3. Add feta and crasins
4. Add pesto and hot pasta mix well adding a bit more pesto to taste.
5. Serve warm add toasted almonds to each serving
6. If you must roasted chicken can be added for meat eaters.

You can use any pre-cooked chicken. 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. Fresh Pesto Pasta Salad with homemade basil pesto, tomatoes and fresh mozzarella. An easy summer salad for everyone to enjoy.

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