Steak & Veggie Gorgonzola Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

for the steak:
1 1/4 lb flank steak
two tablespoons chimichurri spice mix
1/4 loving cup crimson vino vinegar
1 serrano pepper, minced
1 shallot, diced
1 radish, minced


for the salad:
1 lb cooked pocket-size pasta (I used cavatappi)
1 bulb fennel, diced
five crimson radishes, sliced too quartered
iv babe cucumbers, diced
1/2 loving cup diced yellowish carrots
1/4 loving cup diced light-green onion
1 cubanelle pepper, pocket-size dice
1 lb mixed heirloom cherry tomatoes, halved
3-4 oz crumbled gorgonzola
1/4 lb large light-green olives that were packed inwards crude oil alongside chile flakes, sliced*

for the dressing:
iii tablespoons crimson vino vinegar
two tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoons Dijon


Directions:
Marinate the steak alongside the chimichurri mix, shallot, radish, pepper too vinegar for at to the lowest degree 1 lx minutes too upward to overnight. Preheat oven to 400. Heat a cast Fe skillet or other oven-safe skillet. Sear each side for 1-2 minutes. Finish inwards oven for 3-5 minutes or until desired doneness is reached. Remove to cutting board too tent alongside foil. Allow to sit down a brace of minutes earlier slicing. Slice thinly too thus cutting into bite-sized pieces too allow to cool.

Meanwhile, toss together the other salad ingredients. Add the steak when cool. Whisk together the dressing inwards a pocket-size bowl. Toss alongside salad

*I larn these at my local Italian shop but whatsoever house alongside a large alternative of olives should convey them. They are worth seeking out!

My thoughts:

I dearest i bowl meals too of those, pasta salads meridian my list. They are slow to brand (just lots of chopping), crowd-pleasing too tin sack survive made of pretty much anything you lot throw at them. This i started alongside a flank steak I had planned to grill until weather condition got inwards the means too the regain of a huge bulb of fennel inwards the crisper. I ended upward throwing inwards a lot to a greater extent than items from that crisper too ended upward alongside a vaguely Italian pasta salad that is robust tasting too packed amount of veggies. I dearest how the steak, Gorgonzola, olives too fennel came together to shape the base of operations of the season too the cucumbers, carrots, pepper too radishes added crunch.  Perfect for dinner, luncheon or a potluck, it travels good too was fifty-fifty expert the adjacent day!