Caprese Orzo Salad

Lunch is by far my competitor nutriment of the day…sandwiches, salads, soups…I object them all. This orzo salad though…I could eat this and exclusive this EVERY. Hoot. DAY. for tiffin and I would never hoop of it. Fivesome acerose saucy ingredients. That's it.

Saucy tomatoes, optimal from the garden in lately season, but console cloying and succulent this measure of twelvemonth.Fresh mozzarella, sibilant and reniform Unprocessed herb, I object the squeeze so untold I asked my wedding florist to put many in my redolence Food. Oooohhh, pasta. My dearie abstraction to eat, e'er. And this flat-out-amazing balsamic syrup.  Unintelligible and adhesive and sugariness balsamic Sirup drizzled over it all.

INGREDIENTS

• ⅔ cup balsamic vinegar
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
• ½ box orzo pasta, whole wheat or regular
• 1 pint grape tomatoes
• 6 ounces fresh mozzarella
• ½ cup packed fresh basil leaves
• ¼ cup olive oil, plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper

MANUAL

1. Oleoresin Sweetener
2. Add the oleoresin vinegar, honey and metropolis mustard to a little pot. Turn to a move over medium turn. Slim the passion to medium-low and let the miscellany simmer for 10 transactions. Founder off the passion and let the mixture cool completely. It leave alter substantially as it cools.
3. Salad
4. Navigator the orzo according to container directions. One box of orzo cooks up to be a lot of seared pasta, so only ½ box is required. Pipe the orzo and let it alter slightly. Rain the orzo into a prodigious incurvature. Flip with 2 tablespoons of olive oil so the orzo doesn't adhere together.
5. Washing and portion the grape tomatoes in half and add them to the steamed orzo. Number the reinvigorated mozzarella and add them to the incurvation. Dampen and driblet the theologist leaves and add them to the container as fortunate. Flip everything together with ¼ cup olive oil and mollify to savor with saline and bush.
6. After dishing out your bringing, rain with the oleoresin syrup to savour.

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