Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, summer pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Summer Pasta Salad is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Summer Pasta Salad is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have summer pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Summer Pasta Salad:
- Get 2 Cups Cooked Wholewheat Pasta (I use Rotini)
- Take 2 Nectarines
- Take 2 Cups Rocket
- Get 2 Large Tomato’s (any tomato will work)
- Prepare 1/2 Large Cucumber
- Take 1/2 White Onion
- Prepare 1 Cup Feta Cheese
- Take 1 Bunch Fresh Basil
- Take Handful Fresh Chives
- Make ready Optional: Quorn Chicken (or any protein!)
- Get Honey Mustard Dressing
- Take 1/4 Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Take 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
- Make ready 1 Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- Take 2 Tablespoons Dijon Mustard
- Prepare 1 Clove Minced Garlic
- Prepare 2 Tablespoons Honey
- Prepare to taste Salt & Pepper
Cool in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Summer Squash, Mint, and Pecorino Pasta. This Pasta Salad Is the Ultimate Side Dish. Salmon Pasta Salad with Mint and Lemon.
Steps to make Summer Pasta Salad:
- Cook the Pasta (al dente) and set aside to cool. Toss with a little oil to keep from sticking together!
- Dice the vegetables & nectarines into small chunks.
- Finely chop the chives, and tear the basil into small piece.
- Crumble the feta cheese on top.
- Mix all of the ingredients for the honey mustard in a jar or bowl. If using a jar, add all the ingredients and shake well!
- Pour dressing (as much or as little as you want!) onto the salad & serve!
- Mix the pasta with all of the vegetable, nectarine, herbs, and if you decide to put in Quorn chicken pieces or other proteins do so.
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