This Pasta Salad Is Missing Something & I Don’t Mind At At All

Pasta Salad is my death row meal. It will be the last thing I request before the hangman gets to me. This version has no meat, but ups the flavor with some delicious twists on familiar ingredients.

Pasta Salad Ingredients

24 oz Cooked Corkscrew Pasta
33 oz Marinated Artichoke Hearts Seared
4 oz Sliced Black Olives
15 oz Cooked Black Beans Rinsed & Dried
½ medium Red Onion Chopped
1 lb Pepper Jack Cheese Cubed
1 ½ lb Provolone Cheese Cubed
½ cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese
1 cup Candied Pecans Partially Crushed

Dressing Ingredients

¼ cup Red Wine Vinegar
½ cup Olive Oil
1 TBSP Minced Garlic
2 tsp Dried Basil
1 tsp Dried Oregano
½ tsp Coarsely Ground Black Pepper
1 tsp Brown Mustard
2 shakes Tabasco Sauce

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Now I’ve made several pasta salad videos over the years because I love pasta salad and I find it’s one of those things that people really enjoy when you’re going to a party a picnic a barbecue anything like that but I always get asked can you make one without some

Meat sometime well that’s going to be this time but it is still going to be delicious we’re just leaving out the salami and we’re doing some different things with some of the standard ingredients like these marinated archo carts so these are the kind that you get

In the jar they’ve been marinated in oil and that’s important because we’re going to be searing these in a pan so we want some of that oil to really help in that cooking and this is a 33 Oz jar of marinated arter choke Hearts so let’s

Head over to the stove and sear these up so I have a non-stick pan over medium high heat here and if some of the artichoke hearts have fallen apart don’t worry about it you don’t have to put a sear on those just set those to the side

And those are going to go in the salad as is so we’re just going to take our archo cards Ah you can see we’re just starting to get some nice color on there that’s what we want and you don’t have to do both sides if you don’t want to I think it’s really good to get that inner side with some color on it all right I’m going to

Go ahead and sear up all of these and I’ll see you back here so we can start getting the rest of our components ready so our seared artichoke hearts are chilling down in the refrigerator just kind of gets them down to that pasta salad temperature so it’s not warm and

The next thing we’re going to get ready is our dressing now if you want to make more dressing because you like a lot of dressing on your pasta salad just double this recipe I personally don’t like my pasta salad swimming in the dressing I like it just a light coating on

Everything everything and we’re going to use just a mason jar that’s what I like to use because you can just fill it up in here put the lid on and shake it we’re starting with 2 teaspoons of dried basil 1 teaspoon of dried oregano half a teaspoon of a cly ground black

Pepper a tablespoon of minced garlic a teaspoon of mustard I like to use a spicy brown mustard a couple shakes of Tabasco sauce but you could leave this out if you want to if you don’t want any sort of spice in there but Tabasco sauce is more flavor than

Heat couple shakes maybe more than a couple 1/4 cup of red wine vinegar and half a cup of olive Oil we’re also going to give this just a good pinch of kosher Salt got our lid on and we shake that’s all there is to it now let’s get some cheese cut up so I have a pound and 1 half of provolone and a pound of pepper jack here and these cheeses are two of my favorites for pasta salad and we’re just going to

Break them down into those sort of bite-sized pieces that you expect in pasta salad let’s do the pepperjack First so just like that that size right there but you can break them down at any size you like get our Pro on this big hunk here and on these sort of rounded pieces when they come like that I like to break them down similarly and you’re going to

Get some pieces that are just a little bit smaller that’s Fine there’s no right or wrong size here it’s however you like it there is our pile of cheese and now I want to get some candied pecans ready for the salad I have a cup of candied pecans here in a Ziploc bag and I just want to

Break these down I don’t want them in powder I want them smaller Though Just like that I also have maybe a quarter cup of these setting aside to sort of garnish the top of the salad so now let’s move on to building this salad so I have 24 oz of cork screw pasta here that has been cooked and chilled down to

This I’m going to add half of a medium Red Onion that’s been chopped up and if any of those pieces from the choer stuck together try and break them down but as you mix this I find that they break down pretty good and separate I’ve got some sliced black olives this

Is from a 4 oz can I’ve got a 15 oz can of black beans that have been rinsed and dried I’m going to put about half a cup of shredded parmesan cheese now for our mountain of provolone and Pepperjack before I add the dressing and the crushed pecans I want to mix this Up trying to try and get an even distribution here and also break up any of those chunks of cheese and anything that are sticking Together now for our crushed Pecans I find that these just bring a nice little crunchy texture to the pasta salad and our Dressing just going to get in here and mix everything you want to use a spoon go ahead I find by using my hands I can really get a good distribution and get way down to the bottom and bring that up but we have to see if I spill anything

From the bowl which I usually do but we’ll see at at least I used a bigger bowl this time I am notorious for using a bowl that’s too small for the process that’s going On now if you wanted to add meat to this to make it a meaty pasta salad you could add salami you could add grilled chicken you could add anything you want but even without any meat in here this is a very very hearty pasta salad

As you can see oh one Escape get back in there finally our star ingredient are seared archo Carts and give a gentle mix to distribute These now for those archo carts if you wanted to you could actually Grill them give them that color out there maybe use a grill pan with holes in the bottom that would work Terrific all right that’s looking terrific let’s plate some Up I think this would serve three normal people or Me now to top it with a few of these whole candied peons I just buy these candied pecans in bulk at my local Sprouts Market I’ve seen them in other markets so pretty easy to find or you can make your own and there we go seared archo cart

Pasta salad with a ton of cheese and a lot of other great ingredients let’s have a Taste all right I’m going to get some pasta some artichoke heart see if I can get a piece of cheese in here too it is such a simple thing to make but pasta salad honestly is one of my favorite dishes it’s one of the favorite things

That I make because a it is easy and B it’s delicious and c I can make it anytime I want winter summer spring fall doesn’t matter here it Goes that is out of this world good and one of the things you notice right away in the bite is those little bits of the crushed pecan that little bit of extra texture in there really good along with its flavor but man this is good if I was

Sentenced to culinary death row for something like say putting pineapple on pizza and they gave me the option of my last meal I’m pretty sure it would be pasta [Laughter] salad