Easy Pasta Salad
Created by ImPat on February 13, 2020
- Servings: 8
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 15m
- Recipe #34297
Ingredients
- 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
How to Make
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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.
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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.
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Step 3: Cool overnight and add the diced cucumber for a delicious lunch-box salad,
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (137.4 g)
- Calories 194.2
- Total Fat - 6.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.8 g
- Cholesterol - 5.7 mg
- Sodium - 301.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 28 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.7 g
- Sugars - 2.1 g
- Protein - 8 g
- Calcium - 105.4 mg
- Iron - 1.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 11.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg