Brown Purse It: Zesty Zucchini & Orzo Salad
Monday, 13 August 2012
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I made this pasta salad for the origin fourth dimension a few weeks ago. I suggested a last-minute after-work picnic amongst some friends on our favorite smack-dab-in-the-city-tiny-island. An lx minutes earlier I was supposed to exit I remembered that I should genuinely convey some nutrient as well as that's how this salad was born.
It was a quick drive requiring only a few measure ingredients - zucchini, orzo (tiny rice-shaped pasta), onions, garlic & some cider vinegar. Thankfully it made for the most perfect picnic salad. My friends raved as well as fifty-fifty my married adult man who isn't the biggest zucchini fan, gobbled it upwards as well as fought me for the final bite.
The affair that's non bad well-nigh this pasta salad is that it genuinely tastes meliorate the longer it sits out at room temperature (well, inside reason, that is). There's no cheese or dairy to larn things funky then it makes an persuasion brownish purse lunch.
Zesty Zucchini & Orzo Salad
1 loving cup orzo
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 pocket-sized reddish onion, sliced thinly
1 large garlic clove, minced
ii pocket-sized zucchini or summertime squash, quartered & thinly sliced
1 large handful each of fresh basil & parsley, torn
ii tablespoons cider vinegar
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
1/4 teaspoon aleppo pepper
1/4 teaspoon body of body of water salt
Cook orzo inwards a pot of salted water. Drain good as well as laid aside.
Meanwhile, oestrus olive fossil oil inwards a large pan as well as add together inwards onion as well as garlic. Stir to a greater extent than or less until it's soft as well as fragrant - well-nigh four minutes. Add inwards zucchini as well as railroad train for some other five minutes or then until cooked but notwithstanding amongst a chip of bite.
In a large bowl, toss the orzo amongst the zucchini mixture as well as fresh herbs. In a pocket-sized jar, milk shiver upwards the remaining ingredients as well as pour over the orzo/zucchini mixture. Taste as well as accommodate seasoning if necessary. Serves 4.
By Jeannette Ordas of Everybody likes Sandwiches