Easiest Way to Make Summer Pasta Salad in 10 Minutes for Beginners

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, summer pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Summer Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Summer Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have summer pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Summer Pasta Salad:

1. Make ready 2 Cups Cooked Wholewheat Pasta (I use Rotini)
2. Get 2 Nectarines
3. Make ready 2 Cups Rocket
4. Prepare 2 Large Tomato’s (any tomato will work)
5. Make ready 1/2 Large Cucumber
6. Make ready 1/2 White Onion
7. Get 1 Cup Feta Cheese
8. Get 1 Bunch Fresh Basil
9. Take Handful Fresh Chives
10. Take Optional: Quorn Chicken (or any protein!)
11. Prepare Honey Mustard Dressing
12. Prepare 1/4 Cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
13. Make ready 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
14. Take 1 Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
15. Take 2 Tablespoons Dijon Mustard
16. Take 1 Clove Minced Garlic
17. Take 2 Tablespoons Honey
18. Prepare to taste Salt & Pepper

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Instructions to make Summer Pasta Salad:

1. Cook the Pasta (al dente) and set aside to cool. Toss with a little oil to keep from sticking together!
2. Dice the vegetables & nectarines into small chunks.
3. Finely chop the chives, and tear the basil into small piece.
4. Crumble the feta cheese on top.
5. 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!
6. Pour dressing (as much or as little as you want!) onto the salad & serve!
7. 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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