Zippity Dooo Daaaa Orzo Salad!

This was really good! While the pasta was boiling, I made the dressing. When it was done, I poured the pasta right in so that it could absorb all the flavors and I could adjust the seasonings if necessary. While that was chilling, I prepared the veg so they were ready to be added when the orzo was cold. Very nice, light side dish.

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Very good salad, I used lemon zest instead of lime and left out olives. It was a wonderful light salad.

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This was a lovely salad and a change from the usual macaroni salad. I did use the olive oil and regretted it as it left a kind of aftertaste and the salad would have been much nicer with a light vegetable oil. I also scaled back the dressing ingredients by about a third and found it was just right. Finally I used dried basil and oregano but in much smaller quantities and omitted the red onion entirely. It was better the next day and I would recommend making it the night before a party.

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Our family loved this tasty, healthy salad. My only tip would be to watch the added salt. By the time you get the feta, capers, and olives, in the salad, you really don't want to oversalt this dish. Even better the 2nd day.

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Made half a recipe as DH loves orzo. We loved this one and will have it many times again.
Served with Mediterranean Chicken breasts.

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VERY good!

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I had just made what I thought was the most amazing orzo salad from one of my Cooking Light cookbooks the week before I tried this orzo salad. This one topped the other orzo salad, becoming my staple! I'm making it this weekend for a big BBQ and know it will be a HIT. It is SO delicious, thanks for sharing.

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I used goat cheese instead of feta, since I didn't have any feta around. It made for a creamy base. The mustard and capers make a tangy dish. My mom LOVED it

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Very Yummy. We had plenty left over so I took it into the daycare where I work for the kids and even they devoured it!!

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This was really good, I made the morning of for a picnic and it kept well and tasted great. Thanks for posting!

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This was fabulous! My whole family devoured this. The best receipe I've had for orzo with fresh vegetables and herbs. It takes some time to cut everything up, but it's well worth it! My Italian husband, 10-year-old, and 6-year-old ate the whole thing for dinner and begged me to make more! Thanks for sharing!

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This is a fabulous, mediterranean tasting salad and my new favorite pasta salad!!! I made exactly as the directed, but using canned petite diced tomatoes. So often grocery store tomatoes lack flavor. I could not resist having some right away, and imagine even how much better this will be after it sets a while. This is definitely a keeper in my cookbook! :D Believe it or not, my 10 year old son loves it too!

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I made this for our "Kab-arbecue" (Kabob+BBQ) yesterday, and made one substitution: One of our guests has Celiac disease and requires a gluten-free diet. Of course, Orzo pasta isn't that. So I used Brown Rice Rotini Pasta from Trader Joe's, and it was WONDERFUL! Thanks for sharing the recipe!

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This was great! Easy to make and very tastey. I didn't know what lime zest was, so I used 1/4 cup of lime juice instead of lemon juice, and I squeezed in 1 fresh lime. Great for large group parties.

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WOW! Incredible salad! I made this last week, and I agree with other posters, the flavor improves over time. I used only 1/4c. of olive oil and omitted the capers. Instead of Dijon mustard I used a Jalapeño mustard and pressed the garlic. This is such a versatile salad with many combos for many different tastes. Thank you so much for posting. I'll be making this again....and again.

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I made this recipe to take to a goodbye-retirement party at work. It was delicious and folks enjoyed it. I followed the directions exactly and it did take a while to get everything cut up. This makes a TON of salad, way more than 8 servings (as a side). It was better the day it was made than the next day... the feta seemed to get stronger in flavor to me. I did enjoy the dressing and will use that with other combinations of pasta and veggies this summer.

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Very good! I didn't have the right kind of olive oil OR fresh basil OR dijon mustard and it STILL came out great! I can't wait to try it as written. Thank you!!!

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I thought it was o.k., but everybody else loved it and wanted the recipe. I followed the recipe closely

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I don't like olives so I omitted them, but other than that I followed the recipe - it was delicious! I will definitely be making this again. Maybe I will add pieces of chicken next time to make a complete meal.

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This was wonderful. I kept a lot of the juiciness from the tomato partly because we had amazing tomatoes from the garden and partly because my drained pasta was thirsty for something and I did not want it to soak up all of the dressing. I used ditalini (small short tubes) rather than orzo because I don't have a good way to drain the tiny stuff. A perfect dinner for the heat wave, and since it's all done ahead of time, nothing to clean up after enjoying it!

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