Roasted Garlic Pasta Salad. Roasted Garlic, Olive and Tomato Pasta Salad. Slice the tops off the garlic heads. Drizzle with olive oil and place in the center of a large square of foil and fold to seal.

Once the garlic is cool squeeze the cloves out from the bulb and roughly chop. Add the roasted cloves, kalamata olives, tomatoes, fresh chopped basil, chopped garlic cloves and Parmesan to the cool pasta. Season with sea salt and fresh black pepper to taste. You can have Roasted Garlic Pasta Salad using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Roasted Garlic Pasta Salad

It's 3 head of garlic.
You need 1 lb of farfalle pasta.
Prepare 15 oz of ricotta.
It's 2 cup of cherry tomatoes, halved.
You need 1 cup of black olives, sliced.
It's 2 cup of frozen peas.
It's 2 tbsp of salt.
It's 1 tsp of ground black pepper.

Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crisp. Once cooked, place on paper towels to absorb the grease. Season generously with salt and pepper to taste. Toss your pasta salad well and serve it cold.

Roasted Garlic Pasta Salad instructions

Preheat the oven to 400°F..
Slice the tops off the garlic heads. Drizzle with olive oil and place in the center of a large square of foil and fold to seal..
Place the packets in a baking pan and roast for 1 hour, or until the garlic is very soft. Let cool..
Cook the pasta according to directions. Put frozen peas in collider and drain pasta on top. Move to a large bowl..
When garlic has cooled, squeeze garlic into a bowl with the ricotta, salt, and pepper. Whisk until the garlic is well-incorporated..
Pour the ricotta mixture over the pasta and add the tomatoes and olives. Toss to coat..

Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil. Stir in bucatini and return to a boil. Drain and toss with the mushrooms, roasted tomatoes, and remaining butter-garlic sauce. Once you have the roasted garlic all ready to go, making this salad dressing only takes a couple of minutes. My immersion blender is my go-to gadget for this type of job, but you can also use a blender or food processor.