Lou's Mediterranean Salad

Submitted by Its loose again

"It tastes like sunshine."

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 12 ounces tri-color spiral pasta
• 1 lb frozen italian-cut green beans
• 1 (14 1/2 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 lemon, zest of
• 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon fresh oregano
• 1⁄4 cup fresh parsley leaves
• 1 tablespoon capers
• 1 cup kalamata olive, pitted
• 1 cup Spanish olives, pitted
• 1 cup pepperoncini pepper, stems removed
• 1⁄2 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated

directions

1. Cook green beans tender-crisp, 4 to 6 minutes.
2. Cook pasta per package directions.
3. Drop garlic and lemon zest into a running food processor.
4. Stop the processor and add salt, pepper, oregano, parsley and olive oil.
5. Pulse chop.
6. Add capers and briefly pulse chop.
7. Combine pasta, tomatoes, green beans, olives, and peperoncini.
8. Pour dressing over pasta and toss well.
9. Top with Parmesan cheese.
10. Let stand for 1 hour before serving at room temperature.

Reviews

[mianbao]

This is an excellent tasting and beautiful salad. Just right for hot weather. Thank you very much for sharing it with us. I need to add that I used all of the ingredients in the amounts listed (but scaled), except the pepperoncini peppers, which I couldn't locate. If I can find them, I will definitely use them, too. Oh, I did use plain white bowtie pasta, which I don't think changed the flavor of the salad, and still looked very good.

 

[Pooh Bear]

Wow was this good! I brought it to work for a birthday party and everybody loved it. The only thing I did different was to add some feta cheese and some artichoke hearts. I loved the dressing in this salad.