This A person Pot Orzo Pasta Salad with Chicken Sausage is ideal for BBQs, potlucks, and parties. Serve it as a aspect dish or a gentle lunch or supper.

Hi mates!

Just popping in to share a quick recipe with you men.  The temperature is warming up listed here in Ohio and that usually means we’re paying out ALL our no cost time outdoors at the h2o desk. We’re also in the uncomfortable temperature zone exactly where it’s uncomfortably very hot in the household devoid of a fan, but not very hot enough to warrant turning on the air conditioner.

So while Squish spends his time pour h2o back again and forth in between numerous containers, I have been paying out my time dreaming up uncomplicated a single pot foods that can be prepped ahead of time and can be eaten cold.

A person Pot Orzo Pasta Salad

Enter this pasta salad. Orzo is a single of my preferred pastas for a single pot foods for the reason that it cooks swiftly in a compact amount of money of liquid and it’s just the proper size for obtaining some in every chunk. I combined it with tons of veggies and some hen sausage (for the reason that it comes pre-cooked and i’m all about uncomplicated these times) and voila! We ate this pasta salad for equally lunch and supper, but it would also make a very good aspect dish.

I amped up the veggies and went gentle on the hen sausage but you could easily increase more if you wanted to. Or make it vegetarian by replacing it with beans or tofu.

Here’s how you make it:

A person Pot Orzo Pasta Salad with Chicken Sausage

This a single pot Orzo Pasta Salad with Chicken Sausage is ideal for BBQs, potlucks, and parties. Serve it as a aspect dish or a gentle lunch or supper.

Elements

• 
  
  2
  
  cloves garlic, minced
  


• 
  
  1/2
  
  cup onion, diced
  


• 
  
  3/four
  
  cup mushrooms, diced
  


• 
  
  1
  
  cup bell pepper (purple/orange/yellow), diced
  


• 
  
  3/four
  
  cup corn kernals
  


• 
  
  1
  
  cup environmentally friendly beans, chopped (new or frozen)
  


• 
  
  1/2
  
  tsp salt
  


• 
  
  1
  
  tsp paprika
  


• 
  
  2
  
  hen sausages, quartered and sliced
  


• 
  
  1/3
  
  cup orzo, uncooked
  


• 
  
  1 1/3
  
  cup hen broth, divided
  


• 
  
  2
  
  handfuls new toddler spinach leaves
  


• 
  
  3/four
  
  cup new tomato, chopped
  


• 
  
  1/four
  
  cup crumbled feta
  

Directions

In a massive pan or pot, increase a little oil and saute garlic, onion, mushroom, peppers, corn, beans and hen sausage over medium superior heat for 5 minutes.
Increase uncooked orzo and 1 cup broth. Provide liquid to a boil and cook 3 minutes. Minimize heat to medium and cook 5 more minutes, stirring routinely.
Increase spinach and remaining 1/3 cup broth and cook right until wilted- about 2 minutes.
Get rid of from heat and stir in tomatoes and feta.
Serve cold (or warm/place temperature if wished-for).

by Lindsay

Recipe Notes

Truly feel no cost to increase additional vegetables or hen sausage if you want.
To make it vegetarian, sub beans or tofu for the hen sausage.

So uncomplicated. I utilized frozen corn and environmentally friendly beans but you could easily use new. If you cook this in a cast iron skillet, I’d cook the environmentally friendly beans separately and increase them in at the stop for the reason that the cast iron will make them turn a unusual shade of environmentally friendly. (That’s why mine glance a little unpleasant in the pics…bc I forgot.) If you use a typical pot or pan it should not be an difficulty.

Let’s chat:

What’s your preferred pasta salad recipe?

Love!
–Lindsay–