Pasta and Veggie Salad

Ingredients

• dried pasta such as farfalle

  rotini, twists or shells
  1 lb
• olive oil plus 1 tbs. with minced garlic
  ¼ cup
• carrot

  halved lengthwise and sliced thin crosswise
  1 unit
• ears corn cut from cob

  or about 1 cup frozen corn
  2 unit
• green

  red or yellow bell pepper, diced
  ½ unit
• minced onion
  ⅓ to ½ cup
• tomato

  chopped
  1 unit
• chickpeas

  drained and rinsed
  1⅓ to 2 cups
• fresh snipped chives
  2 tbsp
• salt
  1 tsp
• freshly ground black pepper to taste
  1 unit
• balsamic vinegar
  1 to 1½ tbsp
• water
  1 to 1½ tbsp
• clove garlic

  minced
  1 large
• dried basil leaves

  crumbled or 2 to 3 tbsp chopped fresh basil
  2 tsp