Home » Recipes » SaladsThis Easy Orzo Salad is light, fresh, and filled with veggies, chickpeas, and fresh herbs.It will quickly become a go-to pasta salad in your house!I love making and taking pasta salads to potlucks, barbecues, and get togethers.They are the perfect side dish for sharing.

This Easy Orzo Pasta Salad is a summertime favorite.It’s a versatile and delicious side that everyone loves! I always bring an empty bowl home–no leftovers!This Orzo Pasta Salad is the MVP of my summer with chickpeas, cucumber, arugula, cherry tomatoes…all coated in a delicious and bright homemade dressing! It’s a summer favorite, but is good all year around.You can’t go wrong with this recipe, anytime of the year.What is Orzo?Orzo is a really tiny, short pasta.

It’s shaped like large grains of rice, but a little thicker.It’s easy to cook and is great in salads or with served with pesto or marinara sauce.You can buy orzo at most grocery stores, look for it in the pasta aisle.

I love it for this pasta salad because the pasta is so small you can get it in every single bite!Orzo Salad IngredientsThe ingredients are fresh, simple, and oh so delicious! For this salad, you will need: Orzo pasta Arugula (can use spinach) English cucumber Grape tomatoes Chickpeas (white beans or shredded chicken would be good too) Red onion Feta cheese (can use goat cheese or Parmesan cheese) Fresh basilSimple DressingHomemade salad dressings are actually SO simple to make and they

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