Insalata Florentine, Macaroni Grill Style
The Macaroni Grill is a terrific restaurant, and with this recipe for Insalata Florentine, Macaroni Grill Style, you can make a pasta salad that tastes like it just came from the kitchen of this great eatery.
Notes
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Ingredients
- 3 ounce fresh spinach, shredded and julienned
- 3 ounce lean grilled chicken, sliced and chilled
- 1 ounce Roma tomatoes, diced
- 1/2 ounce pine nuts, toasted lightly
- 1/2 ounce sun-dried tomatoes, julienned
- 1/2 ounce capers
- 1/2 ounce black olives, sliced
- 1/2 ounce radicchio, julienned
- 5 ounce cooked orzo pasta, chilled
- 3 ounce roasted garlic lemon vinaigrette
- 1/4 ounce reduced fat Parmesan cheese, shaved
- Fresh cracked pepper, for garnish
Instructions
- In a chilled mixing bowl, combine spinach, chicken, tomatoes, pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes, capers, olives, radicchio, orzo and vinaigrette.
- Toss and serve on a decorative wide bowl.
- Garnish with shaved Parmesan cheese and fresh cracked pepper.