Bacon Pasta Salad
Family-friendly pasta salad with bacon, tomatoes, red onions, and mini mozzarella balls topped with a sweet n'sour olive oil dressing.
Servings: 4 people
Equipment
Ingredients
Pasta salad
- 250 grams cooked pasta fusilli or penne
- 200 grams tomatoes San Marzano
- 150 grams bocconcini halved
- 240 grams bacon or pancetta
- 1/2 red onion
Dressing
- 8 tablespoons olive oil
- 6 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- fresh basil
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- black pepper
To serve
- 2 mini yellow peppers
- 1 teaspoon capers to garnish
Instructions
- Cook the bacon in a dry medium-hot pan until golden and browned.
- Drain the bacon on paper towels.
- Place the cooked pasta on a platter.
- Top with chopped tomatoes, mozzarella balls, bacon, and red onion.
- Mix the olive oil, white wine vinegar, maple syrup, dijon, garlic, chopped basil, sea salt, and pepper in a mixing bowl.
- Pour the dressing over the pasta salad and mix well.
- Sprinkle with whole or chopped basil leaves.
- Halve the mini peppers.
- Use the cookie cutter to make the yellow pepper flowers.
- Spread the flowers on top of the salad.
- Add capers in the center of the flowers.
- Serve.
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Nutrition
Calories: 726kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 61g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 7g | Monounsaturated Fat: 31g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 53mg | Sodium: 1040mg | Potassium: 314mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 442IU | Vitamin C: 9mg | Calcium: 161mg | Iron: 2mg
