Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

• 500gm Pasta
• 2 cups fresh Basil
• 1 large Beet (or several small ones)
• 2 Roasted Bell peppers
• 1 cup Calamata olives (unpitted)
• a Nice slice of Feta cheese
• 1 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup red-wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
• salt, pepper

Directions:

• First start preparing the pasta, bell peppers (if needed) and beets:
  • Boil the pasta in water until ready, drain and wash with cold water
  • Broil the bell peppers until blackened from all sides (turn every now and then), Then chill in plastic bag and peel skin
  • Boil the beets with their skin in water for half an hour. Peel the beets (very easy with hands under running water).
• In the meantime, prepare the dressing:
  • Chop 1/2 cup of basil
  • Whisk vinegar, oil, mustard and spices (to taste) until smooth, add basil
• When pasta is ready (drained and washed) toss pasta in dressing and let sit in large bowl
• Cut remaining basil into strips, add to pasta
• Cut beets and peppers into smallish sizes and add to pasta
• Cut Feta into small cubes and sprinkle on salad
• Sprinkle olives onto salad
• Chill, covered.

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