Fancy Pants Pasta Salad

Name: Fancy Pants Pasta Salad
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2 cups fresh green peas or defrosted frozen green peas; 1 12-ounce can organic chickpeas, drained; 4 local plum tomatoes, cut into wedges; 1 pound organic Italian pasta (I like to use Bionaturae gobetti); Sea salt and pepper, to taste; 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about ½ lemon); ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil; salt; 6 grape or cherry tomatoes; 2 tablespoons fresh tarragon; 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and coarsely chopped; 1 clove garlic; ¼ cup hot water; Pinch of saffron; ¼ pound local baby arugula

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Welcome to Claire's

By Claire Criscuolo

Published 2014

About

A favorite manager of ours, Kathleen, always comes up with fun names for her dishes, such as “Top Notch” and “Fancy Pants.” Whenever a recipe has “fancy” ingredients she refers to the dish as Fancy Pants. Saffron is expensive, incredibly flavorful, and indeed fancy.

Ingredients

salt
1 pound organic Italian pasta (I like to use Bionaturae gobetti)
2 cups fresh

Pasta
Vegan
Christmas
Gluten-free

Method

Bring 8 quarts of lightly salted water to a boil in a large covered pot over high heat. Cook the pasta according to package directions until al dente or to your preference. If using fresh peas, add the peas to the pasta during the last 2 minutes of cooking. Drain the pasta (and