- Now, pasta salad is a big crowd-pleaser
and today, we're gonna give it a healthy,
bright flavor packed Mediterranean twist.
I'm Suzy with TheMediterraneanDish.com,
I'm all about wholesome easy recipes
with big Mediterranean flavors.
And today, we're gonna dig
into my Mediterranean Shrimp Pasta Salad.
All right, so let's just take a quick look at
what we have going on
with this Mediterranean Shrimp Pasta Salad.
So, of course our pasta and shrimp
are our two star ingredients.
But then we have a bunch
of great veggies chopped up right here.
And then we have a little feta cheese, some avocado
and some big bold flavors with mint and parsley.
We're going to start this recipe
with our dressing right in our big mixing bowl here
because we're gonna dump everything into it
and then mix it all up.
This is not a cream based pasta salad,
in fact this is super light and bright and zesty
and that all comes from our lemony dressing here.
So, I've got about 1/4 cup of lemon juice,
and then I'm gonna even add some lemon zest, oh yeah.
The zest here gives it even more lemony flavor,
until your lemon is bald (laughs),
that's basically what you're doing here.
Let's heat it up with our olive oil,
for this you guys,
I always use my Early Harvest extra virgin olive oil.
This is an awesome Greek olive oil,
you can find right on our website, TheMediterraneanDish.com.
It has a lot of deep flavor and which is what you need here
when you're not cooking with olive oil, use a good one.
And then, we are going to do oregano,
and salt and pepper
and then I have paprika,
sweet paprika for just a little bit of depth to my dressing.
The paprika is also available on our shop.
Here we go, one big garlic clove or two smaller ones.
Chop like a pro.
That looks good.
We're gonna give that all a whisk.
With our dressing already in our bowl,
we can just dump everything in here
and kind of give it a good mix.
Pasta goes in, this is obviously already cooked pasta.
If it's a little bit warm, that's great
because it will soak up all the flavors from the dressing.
We have a bunch of veggies to go along,
you can omit whatever you don't like
and make this pasta salad your own.
The star ingredient, shrimp right here.
And we're not skimping on the shrimp, there's plenty,
although, quality control.
So we've got a party going on right here, oh yeah.
I've got an avocado and I'm gonna cut and chop,
hopefully it's a good one.
Huh, not bad, not bad.
I scoop out my avocado.
There's food? - [Man] Yeah.
- Oh, I have onions?
I have onions in my hair. - So was that re-shoot.
- Stay tuned.
This is probably not the cleanest way to do it
but you know, any way you get there,
it doesn't matter just chop, add them in.
I am about to add some more flavor makers here
that go super well with my lemony dressing
and that is mint and parsley.
Don't be shy with your fresh herbs,
that's what makes it super, super fresh and tasty.
Chop like a pro.
Mint goes in.
Now, parsley stems you guys,
are not so hard and they do pack a ton of flavor
so I always just leave a little bit to kinda capitalize
on that flavor.
And again, watch your fingers.
Get in here.
All right, let's give this party a good mix,
of course remember that our dressing is on the bottom
so we wanna kinda get in
and make sure that everything gets coated
with that super tasty Mediterranean dressing.
We'll add our feta cheese,
or not if you're not a feta fan,
we'll add our feta cheese now.
Give this another quick mix.
How easy is this?
Now, this salad makes a great lunch.
But again, if you prepare it ahead,
add your avocado super last minute.
Just the right amount of everything,
nothing is overpowering, there's not too much pasta.
How gorgeous is
this Mediterranean Shrimp Pasta Salad you guys?
And it is loaded with flavor,
I can't wait for you to try it,
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