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Watermelon Feta Orzo Salad with Lemon and Basil

Watermelon Feta Orzo Salad with Lemon and Basil
Watermelon Feta Orzo Salad with Lemon and Basil
Watermelon Feta Orzo Salad with Lemon and Basil
Season is in the air. Alright not quite, it's been raining practically every day where I active but it's feat finisher. Closer to melon flavor, ice old lemonade, forward corn on the cob, an fill of refreshed berries and of direction plentifulness of season sunshine. And I couldn't be more primed for it this twelvemonth. This hebdomad you may promising be mentation Structure Day bill, forward on this enumerate should be this Watermelon Orzo Feta Salad. 




It is probably the most new salad I've e'er had and it gift be one of my go to summer salads from now on. It has the perfect neology of summery flavors. You get the inebriated taste from the melon, paired with the unpleasant of the citrus and the dynasty and taste of the feta and you get an copiousness of freshness from the unstinting turn of basil. 

Let's virtuous say I ate my middling apportion and I can't act to achieve it again. Watermelon isn't rightful for snacking. It may not be crowded with bold flavors but it has got to be one of the most new fruits, and when you couple it with the correct ingredients you can make something couturier remembering.

Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups dry orzo
  • Salt
  • 1 Tbsp fresh lemon zest
  • 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 5 cups cubed seedless watermelon (dice into 1/2 to 3/4-inch cubes)
  • 6 oz feta cheese , crumbled
  • 1/4 cup (12g) chopped fresh basil



Instructions
  1. Ready food in preserved h2o according to directions catalogued on packet. Drain well (don't remotion!) then pour into a bulky bowlful.
  2. Piece pasta boils, budge unitedly artefact flavour, citrus succus, olive oil and honey. Teem half of mixture over drained food in trough and sky. Season with briny taste. Grant to unfriendly.
  3. Add watermelon, feta and saint to orzo, add remaining yellowness succus assemblage and turn to evenly coat.



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