Picnic Basket Pasta Salad | Cooking Professionally

Picnic Basket Pasta Salad | Cooking Professionally

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Every little bit of this Picnic Basket Pasta Salad is made with love. The fragrant garlic flavor comes from a homemade garlic paste! The crunchy almonds are toasted right on your stove! The roasted...

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Ingredients

  • 12 ounces mezzi rigatoni or other short tube-shaped pasta
  • 2 bell peppers, red or yellow, halved, stemmed and seeded
  • 6 cloves garlic, unpeeled
  • 1/4 cup almonds
  • kosher salt, to taste
  • 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 lemon
  • 8 ounces bocconcini (small mozzarella balls)
  • 1 bunch fresh basil, leaves torn
  • fresh ground black pepper, to taste

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