Quick and EASY are two of my favorite words when it comes to cooking in the summer. I want to be outdoors enjoying the weather as much as possible, instead of working hard in my kitchen. This salad combines a couple of summertime gems like fresh basil and tomatoes and takes them to another level. I literally made this meal in under 15 minutes. And with jarred pesto it comes together lickety-split! I reference my slow roasted tomatoes which I featured in a previous video. I make them ahead and they last in the fridge for a week…unless you gobble them all up! My homemade pesto sans nuts is also a make ahead. My husband is allergic to nuts so I make my own and store it in freezer bags to use through out the year. YUM! Throw some fresh different colored tomatoes in and it’s a feast for the eyes. I’ll be making this one over and over this summer…plus it makes great leftovers. WIN!
Hey there oh my goodness I’m excited about this one you guys easy easy summer meal where you can just open some things up and put them together almost there’s a few things that you can add but I got this idea for my good friend
Kim crispy know I cam I told you I was gonna feature you so he’s sorry deal with it she apparently made some amazing salad for fourth of July I didn’t get to witness it but people were raving and I needed to know so she told
Me about what she made and you guys it involves packaged so I have my glove on cuz I’m gonna pick something hot up in a second packaged tortellini super easy takes like five minutes to throw into some boiling water the best thing though is the salad can just be a
Room-temperature salad salad really it’s our dinner but it can be room temperature was which is awesome and then you can see over my shoulder I’ve got some sausages I’m gonna grill those up because I’m trying to make it more of like a full meal for Scott and I so some
Grilled sausages and then you can open up a jar of pesto I made mine homemade because Scott can’t have Nets but Jarah pesto and then tomatoes now the tomatoes you could do fresh if you wanted and just like slice up some little grape tomatoes it’s colorful it’s pretty it feels fresh it
Feels summery you could probably add in like sliced like bigger Tomatoes if you wanted I did slow roasted so apparently the recipe called for like a those like tomatoes that are that you kind of candy and I’ve done a video before look it up if you want all the scoop but slow
Roasted tomatoes they’re really sweet they kind of have a just a really deep flavor they’re so good so those will go in there and then burrata cheese burrata people are like what you’re just too much it’s confusing no it’s not burrata is simply mozzarella like a fresh mozzarella ball and then in the
Center is mozzarella cream you fine burrata they sell it a lot more grocery stores these days I get might at Trader Joe’s it’s five bucks for two balls of burrata so I’ll cut that up into kind of pieces and like put it over the top of the tortellini toss with
Pesto and some tomato and boom some grilled sausages dinner’s served let’s go okay so my tortellini is all cooked up and this is just cheese but you could totally do meat tortellini sorry that’s steaming the camera it really is fresh this is two packages it’s not a ton but it says it’s four
Servings but once you add all this stuff in that’s why I added the meat and I think it will be plenty for bust and then also have leftovers so Tyler might even have a little here’s my fresh homemade pesto oh my gosh the best I’m just doing a big heaping scoop that’s
About right there let’s put about half a cup and I’m just gonna gently fold this in the heat of the pasta will kind of help warm up got pesto and actually I did find out little trivia for you peace do pis tou is technically the name for
Chesta without nuts so but much I always just say pesto because people don’t know what I’m talking about if I say a piece do typically um anyways so think this all tossed in oh it’s such a pretty color you guys I love that in fact I’m
Going to do just a touch more because I think it can handle it I love pesto so what I’m going to do once I get this all folded in here is it’s so simple this is basically it and you can just let this kind of cool down and be at room
Temperature and what I will do is right here next door I’ve got my burrata so my burrata came in this little package like this here’s the sign you guys can see that I didn’t have the right way um and it’s packed this is some water so it looks like a fresh
Mozzarella mozzarella ball but inside see how spongy it is that’s because inside is mozzarella cream so I’ll cut this into pieces and then quickly scoop it on top of this pasta and it’ll kind of melt into that and be all gooey gooey and yummy Tucker really likes it and then I also
Have a fresh yellow heirloom tomato and then I’m gonna top it with some of this so you can kind of see what I got going on here I’m just gonna cut this into pieces and obviously this is like all about presentation if you’re doing it
For a crowd it’s just me and Scott so I’m not super concerned about making it overly fancy that you get the idea with that and then I’m going to put a few of these yellow tomatoes around the edge those are going to be so yummy and then these guys my little roasted roasted
Tomatoes will just get piled right in the middle so you guys this is like colorful and you totally don’t even have to do the roasted tomatoes I mean I think that that will kick it up a notch but you could do fresh but you get the idea a little bit of pesto some
Tortellini and the best part like I said is this can be room temperature and you’re ready to go so next up taste testing my favorite part show you in a sec all right my favorite part II so look how pretty that turned out I did arrange it all nice in
My bowl with little pieces of burrata and some of that fresh heirloom and then the slow-roasted tomatoes I made it fancier than you certainly need to because the idea with this one is quick and easy I did start this meal probably 15 minutes ago and I even had
To do like switching with my little light thingy and stopping and saying hey Scott come fill me so it really is fast store-bought refrigerated tortellini meat cheese whatever you want to have in it Tucker’s real excited about this one store-bought pesto if you need to I did mine fresh some cheese although you
Could take or leave that but I loved the burrata and then the slow roasted tomatoes again something you could do you could also just do fresh so you can whip this one together really easy on a hot summer night and you’d even do in the afternoon and then just leave it
Room temp and it’s ready to go okay so I’m gonna get a little bit some cheese right here and a tomato cuz I want all the things cuz this is called the light of the bike after all and it’s all about that you bite so here we go
Wow not only is it pretty it’s ridiculously tasty whoa it’s like a flavor bomb in your mouth with the tomato the pesto cheese tortellini this fresh burrata which is again just mozzarella filled with mozzarella cream you can’t go wrong there right I made a little second evaluation mm-hmm Wow you
Guys this is outstanding you need to try this easy summer meal oh and look at little grilled sausage on the side member I tell ya mmm-hmm got my protein going perfectly he’ll dinner is superb those were pretty cooked sausages by the way so mm-hmm I
Took too big a bite then happens I’m not a professional oh my word okay love the bike subscribe share the other ones might be a little more professional I promise thanks for watching happy summer hope you’re doing something fun yeah