Steps to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Toasted Orzo Salad With Black Olives And Capers

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, toasted orzo salad with black olives and capers. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have toasted orzo salad with black olives and capers using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Toasted Orzo Salad With Black Olives And Capers:

1. Take 1 1/2 cup Orzo pasta
2. Prepare 2 cup Water or your preference of broth
3. Prepare 2 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
4. Make ready Dressing
5. Get 1/4 cup Kalamata olives, pitted and sliced in half
6. Get 1 tbsp Capers, in salt preferably
7. Prepare 2 tbsp Green onion (chopped, just the green)
8. Get 2 tbsp Parsley, flat leaf chopped
9. Make ready 1 Lemon zest from one lemon
10. Take 1/2 Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
11. Prepare 1 Salt and peeper

Steps to make Toasted Orzo Salad With Black Olives And Capers:

1. Toast the orzo with just enough olive oil to lightly coat. Stir until color becomes golden.
2. Add the 2 cups water or broth.
3. Simmer, uncovered stirring occasionally until the liquid is absorbed.
4. Transfer to stirring bowl.
5. Add olives, capers, green onions, parsley, lemon zest and lemon juice and stir to combine.
6. Note: Why capers in salt? Personal preference. I don't care for the brine taste in most preserved capers in brine.
7. Note: How do I use capers in salt? Pour capers into a glass with water. The salt will sink to the bottom of the glass and with a spoon, you can remove the capers.

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