Ultimate BBQ Pasta Salad – Easy, Fresh, and Packed with Flavor!
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May 1, 2025
This Orzo Pasta Salad is the side dish your next BBQ needs! It’s light, refreshing, and full of flavor from sweet peppers, cherry tomatoes, green olives, and raw corn. Tossed in a tangy Dijon mustard vinaigrette with olive oil and wine vinegar, this cold pasta salad comes together quickly and can be made ahead for any cookout, picnic, or summer gathering. It’s the perfect pairing for grilled meats or a stand-alone light lunch!
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Hello everybody! Today we make a pasta salad. This is really good, nice
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hard to be warm up outside, a nice barbecue, a beautiful salad. I like the salad
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And we got all the ingredients right in front of me. We got a fresh corn, green
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a house, red onion, sweet pepper, orzo, basil from my garden, little tamara, agar oil, vinegar
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and mostarda. It's really good for the salad. After you eat this, nice cold beer or nice glass of wine outside, nice rib, chicken and
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nice beautiful pasta salad. Now first thing we cook the pasta because it got to cool off
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I got to worry and it's salty already. And this is the pasta and we start cooking the pasta
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We give a nice turn. Okay, now we start with the pepper and we chop the pepper
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We do like this, a little cube. And we do all the same thing, the pepper
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Okay, we did the pepper and now we put right on this big bowl
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Okay, after it's gonna be mixed all together. Okay, now the pepper is done and now we can start with the onion
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It is like this. After we make like little cubes too
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Okay. All right, and the honey is done and we put it together with the pepper. Okay, now the pasta is
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done and we gotta drain the pasta. But like this, we take the starch out a little bit
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and we pour right over here with the cold water. and the pasta is going to be cold. Cool off the pasta and we drain
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Okay now the pasta is drained and we put right on this bowl That it And we leave right over here can have it got to be mixed everything with the rest Okay now the pasta is cooled off and I put a little drop oil like this it will stick together And I put like this it enough And you mix a little bit like this you see
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When you put in the salad it will not stick together. Now we got the house, it's too big, but you can buy the smaller one and you will not cut it
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But this is a big one and I want to cut it on half. And now we put together everything in the same bowl. Now we got Jose's corn. This is really fresh
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When I was in Italy this, I was picked up, nice and fresh, and we was eat
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Not a chord like this, like you play the guitar or the harmonica
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It was so good. Now we got to use a knife. Okay. We use like that
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It's really, really, really, really good. This is raw, raw. Now, one time this is done, make sure you take each one and you
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cut like that. But you gotta have a good knife. You cut in half, and after you cut in half
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like that, you make a salad. This is so delicious. You gotta cut four pieces of one little
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corn. Okay. I think so, right. Okay now this is ready and now we put it inside this bowl
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Oh so nice everybody talk about the salad. No worry about it. I don't give it to you. I eat it by myself
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Okay now we put this on the bowl. Oh, this is got a beautiful salad, really nice
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Okay, now we got to start the chop of the tomato. Okay, look at this, oh, nice juicy tomato
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This is juicy tomato. Where do you want to start my tomato
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Okay, now it's time for the tomato. Look how nice and fresh, fresh. This is my garden and what I do, I cut this and now we
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chop Okay now we got a parsley and we put the parsley Oh this parsley is so good it smell good Okay now we got everything that was a chop and now it a time the Pordo Orzo
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Okay, let me make sure that I clean up good, okay? Really nice. Okay now I got the oil, I got the vinegar and I got the
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mustard. Now we start with the mustard first. Okay good. Oh I need this
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What are you left for? You give it to me this empty
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You ran out? But look, it's empty. What are you gonna do
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You gotta scoop it out with the rest. Come on, you got a knot over here
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So do you have another one or? You got a mono. That's this one
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That's it? Uh oh. All right. Wait, you know what you know what I'll do? I'll do something. Okay, we do this
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Okay. Okay, I'll put over here. Now you know what I gotta do. Look, this is the vinegar
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I hope you got vinegar. Oh yeah, it's full. And I put some of the vinegar inside the jar
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Okay. And now, I do like this. Look. You see, you can't throw away the glass
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I'm gonna, look. Look. Beep beep beep. We gotta restart. I will start
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Good, look. Nice, clean. Okay, now we gotta use oil. This is really, really good oil
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Look, look at the color. Okay, now we put a little salt, not too much salt, you know the pasta already I put a salt
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and black pepper. We put a little more vinegar, that's enough. And now we give a nice mix again
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because I always put too much vinegar. All right, and now it's time, because I want to taste
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my pasta salad. Let me pour like a little bit over here
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Mmmmm. Yeah, it's a really good salad for outside and barbecue
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You can eat inside. You can eat any place. I remember when I was in Italy, we was taking the train and go to France and Switzerland
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We was bringing everything on the train. Mmm
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It's delicious. Really good. Thank you. And we'll see you next time with this night, different recipe
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Thank you so much. Really, really good. Fast and sour. Yeah
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Hello? Yeah. Hi sir. Good morning. This is Mira and I am with the local real estate team in the area
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Wait, I was just trying to figure out if you needed a car's warranty extended
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Yes, I need the guarantee. My car is 1818. Nobody wanted to give it to me the insurance in my car
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Oh, why did they hang up? I wonder why. Okay, now I finished the call with this, but still he got some over here
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I don't want to stay next to this one. You know, the corn, it's everything is good. Hmm
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You think you can make tomato sauce with those? This? Yeah. You make tomato sauce, I don't know how many million tomatoes you need
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