Ziti with Fresh Tomato-Olive Sauce

Categories: Veggie | Pasta | Revision | Good

Serves: 4 Servings

Ingredients:

10 oz Ziti or mostaccioli pasta
2 tb Olive oil
2 tb Balsamic vinegar
1 tb Garlic, minced
1/3 c Thinly sliced fresh basil
Or 2 Tbs dried
1/2 c Pitted kalamata olives
Or
4 oz Cn sliced & pitted black
Olives, drained
1 ts Drained capers, optional
1/2 ts Crushed red pepper flakes
4 lg Tomatoes, halved crosswise
4 oz Crumbled feta cheese
Or
1/4 c Parmesan cheese Optional
Salt & pepper to taste

Instructions:
Prepare sauce at least 2 hour before serving to allow it to marinate. In a
large serving bowl, combine the oil, vinegar, garlic, basil, olives, capers
and red pepper flakes. Place a strainer over the serving bowl; squeeze the
juice from the tomato halves into strainer. (Push on seeds with back of a
wooden spoon to extract tomato liquid.) Discard the seeds. Coarsely chop
tomatoes and add to olive mixture. Salt & pepper to taste ; toss well.

Cook pasta per package directions. Drain pasta and add to the bowl while
still hot; toss well. Sprinkle with feta cheese toss well to mix. If
desired additional parmesan or feta can be served at the table as a
topping. Goes well with slice of crusty style bread.

Source: Aug 95 Vegetarian Times Magazine Notes: Make sure tomatoes are ripe
and soft. If they are firm you can marinate them longer to soften them. We
used Feta cheese for the topping. We now marinate this overnight or even
two days in refridgerator.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V5 #018 by Hank & Anne Reintges
on Jan 18, 1998

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