Summer Pasta Salad
Summer Pasta Salad

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, summer pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook summer pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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