Hot honey pasta salad

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This hot honey pasta salad is sweet, spicy, and about to become a favorite dish for summer.

You all know my love for hot honey! (Remember my apple and brie hot honey flatbreads? Yummm.) This hot honey pasta salad is everything about summer packed in a bowl – sweet, with a little heat, fresh and bursting with color.  Scroll down for my recipe and be sure to pin it!

Hot Honey Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

For the pasta salad

• 1 box pasta
• 1 cup of mini bell peppers, sliced
• 1-2 handfuls of fresh arugula
• 1 cup corn
• 1 container mozzarella balls, drained
• 1/4 cup pine nuts

For the dressing

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 4 Tbsp hot honey
• 4 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 Tbsp red wine vinegar
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
• red pepper flakes (to taste)

Directions:

1.) Cook the pasta until it’s al dente, then drain and allow to cool.

2.) While the pasta cools, prepare the dressing. Mix all dressing ingredients in a bowl and whisk together.

3.) In a large bowl, add the pasta, and the rest of the salad ingredients.

4.) Top with hot honey dressing. Sprinkle with pine nuts and mix well.

Enjoy!!

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Hot honey pasta salad

This hot honey pasta salad is sweet and spicy just how summer should be. This will be your new favorite dish of summer.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Course Main Course, Salad, Side Dish

Ingredients

  

For the salad

• 1 box pasta
• 1 cup mini bell peppers sliced
• 1-2 handfuls fresh arugula
• 1 cup corn
• 1 container mozzarella balls water drained
• 1/4 cup pine nuts

For the dressing

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 4 Tbsp hot honey
• 4 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 Tbsp red wine vinegar
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
• red pepper flakes to taste

Instructions

 

• Cook the pasta until it’s al dente, then drain and allow to cool.
• While the pasta cools, prepare the dressing. Mix all dressing ingredients in a bowl and whisk together.
• In a large bowl, add the pasta, and the rest of the salad ingredients.
• Top with hot honey dressing. Sprinkle with pine nuts and mix well.

Keyword easy meals, pasta, salad