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This is a typical Italian pasta salad
made of pesto, olive oil and olives
along with other ingredients.
It is quick, delicious and easy to make.
To make my pasta salad Italian style,
you will need cherry tomatoes,
pesto, cooked pasta, olives, peas,
basil, olive oil and seasoning- salt and pepper.
In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients together.
So the pasta, the cherry tomatoes, the pesto; about a cup,
2 tablespoons of olive oil; of course extra virgin,
add the olives, the peas and mix well.
So you want to make sure that the pesto is
covering each pasta, so you don’t have any chunks of pesto
remaining in the salad.
Then season with salt, pepper.
Be generous; don’t be shy with the pepper.
Mix again to incorporate the seasoning.
Then chop the basil previously washed and dried.
So separate the leaves from the stems.
This is a beautiful basil.
Cut the basil into Chiffonade.
This is a French culinary term.
So stack all the leaves from the biggest one to the smallest one.
Roll the leaves from the stem towards pointed side.
And slice it.
Add to the salad.
Position well your fingers.
Mix to incorporate the basil.
It's very fragrant!
Beautiful! It's great!
Smells like in Tuscany!
Taste.
Very nice! Modify the seasoning according to your taste.
So for me, tiny bit more salt.
Plate.
Pasta salad Italian style. Bon appétit!