Greek Orzo Salad is a healthy and quick pasta salad made with orzo pasta. This recipe makes a lot and the leftovers make great weekday lunches!
Ingredients
1poundorzo pasta
1cucumber, seeded, peeled, and diced
1red pepper
½red onion, diced
6ouncesfeta cheese
½cupslivered almonds
1avocado, diced
Salt and pepper
Quick Lemon Dressing:
1clovegarlic
1lemon, juice only
¼cupolive oil
Salt
Instructions
For dressing, dice garlic clove and mash it together with salt in a small bowl to form a rough paste. Then whisk in lemon juice and olive oil and season with salt. You might not need all of the dressing.
Cook orzo according to package.
Dice all the veggies finely. Take your time to make sure they are even-sized. For the cucumber, be sure to scoop out the seeds and peel it.
Mix orzo with veggies and crumble in feta cheese.
Drizzle on dressing and stir well. Start with half the dressing and add more if you want. It should be very lightly dressed.
Stir in chopped avocado and sliced almonds and season with salt and pepper.