lobster caprese pasta salad with pesto drizzle

Lobster Caprese Pasta Salad with Pesto Drizzle

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Lobster Caprese Pasta Salad with Pesto Drizzle

Ingredients:

Directions:

1. Bring a medium saucepan filled with water to a boil. Add pasta and cook according to package directions. Rinse, drain and let cool.
2. In a large bowl, combine cooled pasta, bocconcini, cherry tomatoes, basil and PEI lobster meat.
3. To make dressing, whisk together balsamic vinegar, 2 tbsp pesto, honey, mustard, salt and pepper. Slowly drizzle in ½ cup olive oil, whisking constantly. Add to pasta mixture and toss to coat.
4. To make pesto drizzle, mix 2 tbsp pesto with 1 tbsp olive oil. Drizzle over pasta salad when serving.
Garnish with basil and lobster claws.

*If not eating immediately, reserve basil until it’s time to eat.

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Do you know lobster? Lobsters are handled one at a time.

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Do you know lobster? Lobster is good for you.

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Do you know lobster? Lobsters have a pigment in their shells making the shell appear red.

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Do you know lobster? Once inside a trap lobsters can never get out.

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