Grilled Pasta Salad
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 2 cups pasta, small shells (or your personal favorite)
- 3 -4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 sweet onion, wedged
- 1 skewer, large
- 1⁄2 sweet pepper, orange, quartered
- 1⁄2 sweet pepper, yellow, quartered
- 1 bunch asparagus (trim the woody ends)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt, coarse, sea
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground
- 2 teaspoons white balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon roasted garlic, paste
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1 cup chicken breast, skinless, cooked (chopped or shredded)
- 4 slices bacon, fried (crisp and crumbled)
- 15 cherry tomatoes, cut in half
- 12 green olives, with pimento, cut in half
- 1⁄3 cup feta, greek (crumbled or diced)
- 3 tablespoons basil, fresh, chopped
- 4 basil sprigs, small, fresh, for garnish
directions
- Heat barbeque to medium high.
- Cook the pasta according to directions on package, drain and toss with a drizzle of olive oil to prevent it from sticking, set aside until needed.
- Slice the onion into thick wedges, thread onto skewer, brush with 1 tsp oilive oil, set aside until needed.
- Place the yellow and orange peppers and asparagus in a bowl, add 2 tsp of olive oil and toss to coat. Season the vegetables with 1/4 tsp of salt and pepper.
- Grill the peppers and onion skewer, until tender and charred (10 minutes) and grill the asparagus until lightly charred and tender-crisp (5 minutes).
- Remove vegetables from grill allow to cool, then finely chop the onion and peppers .
- Chop the asparagus into 1 inch pieces and set aside until needed.
- In a large bowl whisk the remaining olive oil , salt and pepper, as well as the vinegar, garlic paste and mustard.
- Once the dressing is prepared add to the dressing the onion, peppers, asparagus, chicken , bacon, tomatoes, olives, cheese and chopped basil.
- Make sure to mix well coating all ingredients, if necessary drizzle with a little extra olive oil.
- Taste, reseason if necessary and garnish with the basil sprig.
- Enjoy!
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