Author Notes: The recipe for Out of the Box Food’s Farmers Market Pasta Salad comes from the desire to create a healthy, family friendly dish from the bounty of farmers market produce. Farmers markets can be a magical introduction to fruits and vegetables for children, and what better way to showcase them than with a simple, vegetable forward dish. This recipe is a blank canvas…let your family create. —Out of the Box Food
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
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1
pound Fregola Sardo Pasta
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2-3
handfuls baby spinach, torn
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an assortment of fresh vegetables such as fava beans, freshly shelled peas, grape tomatoes, etc.
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2
cups fresh mozzarella, roughly chopped
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8-10
basil leaves (or more to taste)
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3-4
splashes good quality olive oil
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1-2
splashes fresh lemon juice
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pinches red pepper flakes (optional)
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sea salt and pepper to taste
Directions
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and rinse under cool water.
- Drizzle pasta with olive oil. Drizzle with lemon juice (if using) Add sea salt and pepper flakes. Toss. Adjust seasoning as desired.
- Prepare vegetables by blanching if needed.
- Chiffonade the basil.
- Add basil, mozzarella and vegetables.
- Adjust seasonings if necessary and serve.