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With this African cyclone coming in strong and with the perennial heat even from the first lights of the morning, a fresh and quick recipe like a colorful pasta salad is the ideal for a tasty and light lunch.
In fact, pasta salad is a very popular and delicious summer dish to take with you when you go out on trips, picnics in the mountains or on the beach… even more, with the addition of the right extra virgin olive oil you can create infinite different variants.
In short, practical, nutritious, to be prepared in advance and enjoyed cold, the summer pasta salad can be customized in many ways: with seasonal vegetables, fresh fruit, cheeses or legumes and, also in this case, the extra virgin olive oil is a precious ally in the kitchen. It gives flavour, character and structure to the recipe for the perfect pasta salad: let’s find out how together.
The recipes for getting together a simple and tasty pasta salad are endless and suitable for everyone, both for those who are taking their first steps in the kitchen and for those who are now experts in preparing fresh and quick dishes, in case of summer aperitifs or out-of-town trips with friends and family.
The first question that might arise spontaneously when approaching this recipe is: what kind of pasta to use to make the perfect fresh pasta salad?
In this case there is no mandatory rule, you simply choose the pasta you prefer or that one that you have in the pantry at that moment: fusilli, mezze penne, sedanini, conchiglie are fine… but in any case we recommend using short pasta for making a more practical pasta salad, both in the moment of preparation and in the post.
Once the pasta kind has been chosen, we go on to the choice of the perfect dressing for our fresh and nutritious pasta salad.
We at Frantoio Bonamini want to share 5 pasta salad ideas paired with our mouth-watering extra virgin olive oil:
1. “Carnivore” pasta salad: fusilli, chicken strips, lightly seasoned bell peppers and a delicious addition of our pitted olives in extra virgin olive oil. This pasta salad is given the final touch by one of our most traditional evo oils, the Santa Giustina extra virgin olive oil which, with its fresh and fruity flavor, perfectly balances this pasta salad recipe.
2. “Pescetarian” pasta salad: mezze penne rigate, tuna fillets in Bonamini extra virgin olive oil, grilled zucchini and Bonamini Champignons mushrooms. Here you want to dare a little bit more and that’s why we recommend using a more particular olive oil for example our Lemon Olive Oil, to give a sense of freshness to this summer pasta salad.
3. “Vegetarian” pasta salad: farfalle, mozzarella bites, basil pesto from Frantoio Bonamini and sun-dried tomatoes in Bonamini extra virgin olive oil. For this classic and traditional pasta salad, we feel like combining an extra virgin olive oil that smells just as much of tradition, that is our Campo di Casa extra virgin olive oil. An interesting blend of 13 varieties of olives, grown directly in the olive grove located just behind the mill.
4. “Vegan” pasta salad: pasta shells, crunchy chickpeas, boiled green beans, yellow and red cherry tomatoes and a final addition of Bonamini artichokes in oil. To continue in the tradition of the Mediterranean diet but with a more modern and particular reinterpretation, for this pasta salad we recommend using our Oregano Flavored Oil as a dressing. An aromatic herb widely used in Italian kitchens, especially in the preparation of fresh dishes such as summer pasta salad.
5. “Fruitarian” pasta salad: mezze maniche rigate, rocket or rocket pesto, raw ham stick, diced melon seasoned with pepper and pitted black olives in Bonamini olive oil. With this reinterpretation in the kitchen we can only recommend our extra virgin olive oil Vert De Vertes; the green extra virgin olive oil produced with only green olives will give this pasta salad recipe an even more… explosive flavour.
Now let’s start cooking these colorful, personalized and delicious summer pasta salads!
With our extra virgin olive oils and the line of flavored oils from Frantoio Bonamini you will have the perfect opportunity to give particularity and transform a simple cold pasta salad into a gastronomic masterpiece, to enjoy with all our 5 senses.
