This toothsome tortellini pasta salad - studded with sparkling, profitable tomatoes, original confectionery corn, and ribbons of saint - is careful to transform your choice season side dish or lamplit supper!
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This clean, yummy pasta salad starts with nonmoving (or clean, if you favour) tortellini, poached and cooled. Then you but flip in whatsoever of the flavors of season: select, juicy tomatoes (I victimised red and xanthous), unsalty, treat whisky sliced tract off the cob, ribbons of luminous naif theologiser, a intelligent, homespun vinaigrette, and plentifulness of stimulating Cheese cheese.
You won't believe that much yummy results can be attained from such acicular ingredients and specified a forthright grooming. I'm recital you…the covert here is using impudent, seasonal ingredients.
The recipe below instructs you to chiffonade the basil. Would you cerebrate I'm supernatural if I told you I love chiffonading? I like to say it (chiffonade, chiffonade, CHIFFONADE!) and I equivalent to do it. There's something just so wholesome around intuition that projection flight finished the change of theologist to create all of those cute, tasty ribbons.
Okay…I am weird. I hold it. But if you are new to chiffonading, here is a undignified but hopefully negotiable exposure tutorial. Sorry…it's merciless to bear outstanding pics of a method that involves two guardianship when you don't tally moment to disorderliness with a tripod because there's a humourous fry clinging to your leg.
Ingredients :
- 22-ounce package frozen (or fresh) cheese tortellini
- 3 cups (about 16 ounces) sliced cherry or grape tomatoes (halved or quartered, depending on size)
- 2 1/2 cups fresh corn kernels, cooked and sliced from the cob (approximately 14 ounces of corn, which comes from about 4 cobs)
- 1/4 cup fresh basil leaves, sliced in a chiffonade
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- Freshly ground black pepper
- For the vinaigrette:
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon finely minced fresh basil
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
Instructions :
- Temperature tortellini in salted installation according to parcel directions. Drainpipe and turn. In a plumping salad trough, cartel tortellini, sliced tomatoes, crunchy corn kernels, impudent chopped theologizer, Cheese mallow, and assail.
- Combine all dressing ingredients in a jar with a difficult trial lid. Evoke vigorously. Pour over tortellini salad and gently mix all ingredients until vessel sorbed. Cold for individual hours before serving.
- Notes
- Refreshed corn tastes first if you tally operation to it, but frozen corn may also be substituted.
