Simple Way to Prepare Homemade Greek spinach orzo salad

Ina Brewer   14/05/2020 21:59

Greek spinach orzo salad
Greek spinach orzo salad

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, greek spinach orzo salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Greek spinach orzo salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Greek spinach orzo salad is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Add the orzo to the pot. Greek Orzo Salad is the perfect potluck, picnic or barbecue salad! Tender orzo pasta is tossed with fresh spinach, tomatoes, bell peppers, onion, olives, feta and drizzled with greek dressing.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek spinach orzo salad using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Greek spinach orzo salad:
  1. Make ready uncooked orzo pasta
  2. Prepare spinach, torn
  3. Get kalamata (Greek) olives, roughly chopped
  4. Take red onion, sliced into thin half moons
  5. Take cucumber, quartered and sliced
  6. Make ready tomato, diced
  7. Take balsamic vinaigrette
  8. Take dried oregano
  9. Prepare salt
  10. Get pepper
  11. Take feta cheese, crumbled
  12. Prepare pine nuts

Greek Orzo Salad is perfect to make year-round and it goes perfectly with grilled chicken. It's a healthy and filling, veggie-packed pasta salad, and of course if you want to make it even healthier you could go with a whole wheat or high fiber orzo, you can also switch up the type of pasta (rotini, macaroni and tortellini are other great options). If you've had Whole Food's Greek Orzo Salad, the most delicious and light salad with spinach and feta, you know how addicting it is. However, for a whole family, and how much we love to eat, it gets pricey.

Steps to make Greek spinach orzo salad:
  1. Cook orzo pasta according to package directions.
  2. Meanwhile, toast pine nuts: place pine nuts in saute pan and toast over medium heat until golden, stirring often. Remove from heat when done.
  3. When pasta is cooked, drain and rinse with cold water. Drain well.
  4. In large bowl, combine spinach, orzo, onion, cucumber, tomato, olives, salt, pepper, oregano, and balsamic vinaigrette. Chill 2 hours. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/350252-balsamic-vinaigrette
  5. Sprinkle with toasted pine nuts and feta and serve.

Plus, I can't buy everything I need at that store and sometimes can't make it in. That makes this Mediterranean Orzo Salad a quick meal to prep. Typically orzo is made from white flour but I really love this whole wheat version from Delallo. If you're gluten-free you can also purchase gluten-free orzo as well. This Mediterranean Orzo Salad with Feta is super easy to make and if you time it right, it.

So that is going to wrap this up with this special food greek spinach orzo salad recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am sure you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!

©2020 Food Recipe Free - All Rights Reserved