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A person holds a round dish filled with healthy fusilli pasta salad, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella balls, basil leaves, and yellow flower-shaped bites, on a gray surface with grape tomatoes and a striped towel nearby.
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Bacon Pasta Salad

Prep Time25 minutes
Servings: 4 people

Ingredients

  • 250 grams cooked pasta fusilli or penne
  • 200 grams tomatoes San Marzano
  • 150 grams bocconcini halved
  • 240 grams bacon or pancetta
  • half a red onion
  • 8 tablespoons olive oil
  • 6 tablespoons white wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup
  • 2 cloves of garlic minced
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • handful of fresh basil
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • ground black pepper
  • 2 mini yellow peppers
  • capers
  • small flower cookie cutter

Instructions

  • Fry the bacon in a dry medium-hot pan until golden and browned.
  • You can soak up the excess fat with a piece of kitchen towel if you want.
  • Leave the bacon to cool slightly in the pan.
  • Place the cooked pasta on a platter.
  • Top with chopped tomatoes, mozzarella balls, bacon, and half a 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.
  • 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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