The Problem with PASTA SALAD… and the Solution(s)

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The Problem with PASTA SALAD… and the Solution(s) | Italian Pasta Salad Alternative Recipes

Lots of people have requested a pasta salad recipe from Eva. The only problem is that she never makes pasta salad… Today, she’s here to explain her problem with the potluck classic and to propose some yummy Italian alternative recipes!

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🌾 INSALATA DI FARRO RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/insalata-di-farro-italian-barley-salad-recipe

🌽 INSALATA CON POLENTA FRITTA RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/pan-fried-polenta-with-salmon-asparagus-recipe

🍞 CIALLEDDA RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/cialledda-southern-italian-bread-salad-recipe

🥔 INSALATA PANTESCA RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/insalata-pantesca-italian-potato-salad

🍚 VENERE ESOTICA RECIPE – https://www.pastagrammar.com/post/black-rice-salad-with-pineapple-avocado-shrimp-recipe

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00:00 – The Problem with Pasta Salads
01:38 – Barley Salad
04:14 – Insalata di Farro
05:35 – Polenta Salad
08:10 – Insalata con Polenta Fritta
09:39 – Bread Salad
11:39 – Cialledda
13:42 – Potato Salad… Italian Style
15:15 – Insalata Pantesca
16:53 – Rice Salad
18:58 – Venere Esotica
20:27 – Pasta Grammarian in Action
20:53 – Ciao for Now!

It’s a little bit hot today not exactly the kind of day that most people are craving like a lasagna but maybe cold pasta salad a lot of people have asked me to ask ava for a pasta salad recipe but then i realized i’ve never seen her make a pasta salad

Yes in italy we have pasta salad the people in italy cook busta salad personally i don’t like pasta salad because in my opinion it has several problems this is a pasta salad that i got at the store here in america but what you find in italy is pretty pretty

Much the same so let’s investigate as you see it’s like the pasta doesn’t stay it’s completely mushy it’s completely destroyed the point here is that after you cook the pasta you let that it sit in the fridge for one day one day in an alpha then the pasta becomes mushy it’s

Not al dent anymore after three minutes pasta is not all dead anymore but in italy we have other dishes that resemble a pasta salad but they are not a pasta salad they are perfect to bring with you at work they are cold you can put in the fridge they are perfect for your

Meal prep but they don’t have the problem of pasta salad do you want to show me some of them and i can pick which one is my favorite tea albe So our first alternative pasta salad is this uh what is that this is farwarp i think that in english you call it barley oh barley and in the past we use it was used a lot in the italian cuisine Barley is cooked more or less like pasta which means that we need a pot full of water then we cook the barley until is cooked bottle dead so Two minutes I’m going to use some provolone a sharp problem then if you can find the sharp provolone you can use the you can use mozzarella you can use also very good cheddar if you have it on your hands how do you see if you have it on

Hand yes if you have in the fridge I’ve had barley soup that might be the only way i’ve ever eaten barley well let’s see if this barley salad is as al dente as you claim it is do you have a dab tapper not really no uh that’s really good there’s no butt there’s no butt that’s very good it’s perfect

And i can’t imagine the barley getting soggy it can’t doesn’t seem like it would it’s a summer dish you can make in advance you can keep in the fridge for three four days and it will be always gorgeous amazing delicious al dente it’s not really a pasta salad but that’s maybe

The best pasta salad i’ve ever had but i know you have a few other alternatives to show me a few moments later this is so good okay sorry on to the next one do we have to do others can we just this this is it

This is done just do this this is just the beginning arpair it gets better with every bite you know what tomorrow will be much better i believe you but i don’t think i’m going to be able to find out are you ready to reveal our second pasta salad substitute polenta I’m going to season my poranta with some sumac now i know you can think that this is from the middle east middle east yeah now i know that you can think that this is just from the middle east but that’s not true because in sea

Silly we have a lot of what we call somako and it’s the same spices this is a very lemony citrus taste and i think that it works pretty well with my dish when the polenta is cooked we spread it on a baking tray and we let it

Completely cool down for about at least one hour one hour and a half What’s up with that because if you put the vegetables that you are boiling in water and ice they don’t cook anymore This one is very intriguing i love polenta i’ve had it you’ve kind of like roasted it for me before and i think i posted a picture on instagram follow us at pasta grammar by the way and a bunch of italians were like harper you gotta try fried polenta

This is my first but we have the asparagus how do you say english asparagus and we have the salmon it’s a different salad clearly it’s a different salad but it’s a salad because all the elements are combined together and you can eat without any problem cold you can prepare

This today tomorrow the day after and believe me the fried polenta will be always al dente okay this time is my turn mom mommy okay all those people who told me to try fried polenda you were a thousand percent correct asparagus and salmon together for a given then you add fried polenta by

Itself is a gift from god it’s amazing yeah what is it about salmon and asparagus i wonder who the first person was to put salmon and asparagus together fried polenta salad who knew it’s time for ava to reveal her next pasta salad alternative so what’s under mystery bowl number three Bread you’re gonna make a bread salad a certain that’s cool bread is my favorite vegetable it’s a grain our beer it’s a carbo no it’s a vegetable i’m pretty sure it’s a first course are you sure it’s not a vegetable i bet the bread is as his own category is

Bread are you sure it’s not a vegetable oh our pear this is still bread this is bread this is real bread it’s not a wonder bread it’s not chemical brioche is bread you need bread made by wheat flour water and salt that’s it and yeast if you do our dough not really I will soak this for more or less one minute because i don’t like the mushy taste al dente stale bread every single dance is much better Now i am familiar with the wonderful magical miracle that is stale bread and how italians use it for instance and we should have done this in our last video in our ricotta video one of the best things you can possibly eat is this same stale bread with

Fresh ricotta right hot like it was just cooked skimmed off the top of the way and then drizzled on the bread you let the bread soak up the juices maybe one of the best things i’ve ever eaten but even so i never imagined you’re gonna make a bread salad today

Have you ever heard of panzanella is that like puccinello no harper panzanella is a dish from the center of italy most from tuscany and it’s a salad made with bread and vegetables we have our version in the south of italy that we call chalet i’m fascinated now this is one where i’m

Like surely this bread by now i mean this has sat for a while is mushy no tell me that this bread is mushy it’s kind of perfect this bread becomes soft gooey and soft on the outside but with like a satisfying just like soft bite to

It oh i don’t know this might be this might be better than the barley okay you guys can’t see but ava and i right now are engaged in an unspoken competition we both know what’s happening here we’re both trying to pick out the delicious pieces of bread

She goes for one and i quickly try to get one i’m trying to get two at a time we’re both trying to get the bread we’re almost out of bread you know it you know it which means how good is this brand you know if you will

Leave the mozzarella i need the bread all right i doubt very much you’re gonna find anything as good as that but i’ll let you try mystery box number four potato potato sauce you’re gonna make a potato salad i’m going to make a potato salad italian style I boiled the potato until the potato is tender which means that i can go inside with a fork but it should be still very very firm because otherwise it’s too much i let the onion sit in the vinegar for about 30 minutes one hour and now they are completely sweet If you peel the potatoes before you boil it the potatoes will absorb all the water and we end up with natural mashed potatoes I’ve had quite a few potato salads in my day but none that looked quite like this this happen is the famous enzalata pandesca fantesca it’s in the alien island there’s an island anyway this is a oh sicilian why didn’t you say so sicily i’ve heard of that pay attention because

People from pantaleria they remember you but this is the way in which in italy we make ensalada di patate potato salad potato Oh that’s so weird i can actually taste something underneath all the mayonnaise there isn’t the mayonnaise here we make potato salads it’s primarily slathered in mayonnaise now that i have anything wrong as mayonnaise i like mayonnaise but you tend to not be able to taste anything other than mayonnaise here you can taste

The potatoes you can test the olives you can taste the onion you can taste the tomatoes you can taste the cappers oh that’s super good it has a lot of the same ingredients to the bread salad onion and tomatoes and olives i really thought that it was just gonna be like

That but with potatoes it’s completely different anyone who’s had any kind of potato salad knows that the potatoes are not going to get soggy what that bit i’m trying to think which is my favorite this is getting harder you want to show me one more yes art but also because we miss an

Ingredient that we need to use this time the alternative of pasta salad that i’m going to show you is rice oh you’ve made rice salad for me before but this time i’ll pearl i’m using risovenor it is the italian black rice Today i’m going to make not a traditional italian dish i’m going to use avocado and pineapple yes pineapple i don’t like eating pizza but it doesn’t mean that i don’t like pineapple Honolulu baby where’d you get that smile this is unexpected the rice is an italian rice one of the 150 avocado we grow in italy avocado in calabria and season is full shrimp we have shrimp in italy maybe we don’t have pineapple but give us 10 years we start to produce

Also pineapple yeah you’ve shown me like a basic rice salad before which you can watch up here one of these corners somewhere but boy this is quite an interesting take all right bon appetito that’s really good and i want to point that this kind of dish for example you

Can’t make with the arborio rice caramelly rice because they are too starchy well you need a rice that it’s like how do you say keep separate yeah the rice doesn’t all sort of stick together in a gooey way kind of like a risotto would you know the rice

Would be always them that’s the great benefit of a rice salad compared to a pasta salad what’s your favorite i think i gotta go with the potato salad which is funny because i’ve never once liked potato salad in my entire life i’ve always hated potato salad

Guys thank you so much for watching we hope we’ve given you some ideas for what to eat on a hot summer day before we go a quick shout out to a pasta grammarian in action some juan made a beautiful plate of pasta alla putanesca that is one beautiful plate of

Pasta this pasta grammarian joined us on not juan but two pasta grammar tours and it’s coming with us on a third tell one dark one if you’d like to become a pastor grammarian then hit that subscribe button follow us on social media at pasta grammar and tag us in a

Picture if you try any of these recipes all right guys we’ll see you next time Baby