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Easy Pasta Salad

Here's how you make Easy Pasta Salad
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  • Servings: 8
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 15m
    • The following recipe serves 8 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 150 grams dried pasta
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoon capers
  • 1/2 red capsicum, deseeded and chopped
  • 200 grams cherry tomatoes, 1 punnet specified which is usually between 200 grams and 250 grams
  • 8 black olives, pitted
  • 150 grams spinach
  • 1 tablespoon pesto
  • 1 Lebanese cucumber, diced
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Cook pasta and while the pasta is cooking, chop the tomatoes and olives in half and once the pasta is cooked, drain and set aside, reserving a little of the cooking liquid.

  • Step 2: In the same pot used to cook the pasta, heat the oil and fry the garlic and capers until fragrant and then add the capsicum, tomatoes and olives and cook for 2 minutes and then pour the pasta back into the pot with the spinach, pesto and a small amount of the reserved cooking liquid and stir until spinach has wilted slightly.

  • Step 3: Cool overnight and add the diced cucumber for a delicious lunch-box salad,

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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