Green Goddess Pesto Pasta Salad
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
30 mins
All your greens in one bowl with this Green Goddess Pesto Pasta Salad! It's wonderfully flavourful, filling and packed with healthy goodness.
Course:
Main Meals
Cuisine:
Italian
Keyword:
Green, Lunch, Pasta Salad, Pesto Dressing
Servings: 4
Calories: 346 kcal
Ingredients
- 250 g brown rice pasta twirls or shells
- 350 g zucchini thinly sliced into strips (long-ways)
- 1 1/2 heaped tbsp basil pesto
- Zest of 1/2 lemon or lime
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Salt & black pepper to taste
- Handful fresh parsley chopped
- Small bunch of chives chopped
- Large handful rocket roughly chopped
- 4 spring onions chopped into thin rings
Instructions
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Place your water on to boil in a large saucepan, follow cooking instructions for the pasta on the box. Once the pasta is cooked, drain and set aside to cool.
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In a large frying pan on a medium heat, cook the zucchini on both sides until tender and just starting to brown.
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Place the pesto, lemon zest, lemon juice, olive oil, salt & black pepper in a salad bowl, and mix them together.
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Then add all the other ingredients along with the pasta and toss together well.
