Not content with mere side dish status, the best pasta salads are busting out main-dish moves with bold tastes and textures.
Take a look at some of our favorite main dish pasta salad recipes to make this summer.
This spicy, sweet, and punchy pasta salad is perfect for a hot summer picnic when you need your dishes perfect at room (ahem, air) temperature.
Ingredients of Summer spaghetti
- Prepare of Spaghetti:.
- Prepare 8 oz of (half a pound) red lentil spaghetti noodles (not cooked).
- Prepare 5 cups of water.
- It's 2 teaspoons of salt.
- It's of Olive oil.
- You need of For the rest:.
- Prepare 20 of basil leafs.
- Prepare 3 of large tomatoes.
- You need 1 cup of fresh mozzarella (cubed in 1/2 inch cubes).
- You need 2 of chicken breasts.
- Prepare of Olive oil.
Summer spaghetti step by step
- For the spaghetti:.
- Boil water and add salt.
- Add red lentil noodles to boiling water.
- Let red lentil noodles get soft then take off heat.
- Drain water and add olive oil to the noodles.
- Stir.
- Let cool in the refrigerator until needed (it won’t be needed till later).
- For the rest:.
- Chop basil extra finely.
- Chop tomatoes.
- Bring out the cold noodles.
- Add the basil, tomato, and cheese to the noodles and stir.
- Put back into the refrigerator.
- Add about 1 tablespoon olive oil to a large frying pan.
- Once the oil is hot, bake chicken.
- Once your chicken is cooked and tender, make small strips with it.
- Now add the chicken to the noodle mix.
- Enjoy!!.
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