Greek-Inspired Vegan Orzo Salad

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 pound orzo
• 4 each persian cucumbers

  chopped
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes

  halved
• ½ ea red onion

  chopped
• 10 ea calamata olives

  pitted and halved
• 1 ea avocado

  sliced
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tsp pure maple syrup
• 2 ½ each lemons

  squeezed
• 1 pinch dry italian seasoning
• 1 pinch salt and black pepper

  to taste

Instructions

• 1 Cook orzo pasta as directed, rinse with cold water and drain.
• 2 Put Orzo in a large mixing bowl and add olive oil, pure maple syrup and the
  juice of lemons. Mix with hands to distribute evenly throughout pasta
• 3 Add Persian cucumbers, halved cherry tomatoes, red onion and calamata olives to
  bowl, salt lightly, drizzle with Extra Virgin Olive oil, a pinch of dried
  Italian seasoning and a few grinds of black pepper then mix into orzo with
  hands.
• 4 Top with salted sliced avocado and a squeeze of lemon

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