Pasta Salad | Pasta Salad with Sundried Tomatoes
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Recipe type: Starter/Appetizer
Cuisine: Italian, Greek
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Serves: 1 big bowl
 
A super tasty and creamy pasta salad, loaded with all the fun fixins
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup or 100 Gm fusilli
For Dressing:
  • 1 Tbsp chopped sundried tomatoes
  • 2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • ½ Tsp black pepper
  • 1 clove garlic
  • Few basil leaves
  • ¼ Cup cheese
For Fixins:
  • 30-50 Gm feta cheese
  • ¼ Cup kalamata olives
  • 8-10 cherry/plum tomatoes
  • Basil leaves to garnish
Method
  1. Boil the pasta for 10-12 minutes or according to package instructions, till al-dente
  2. Drain water from the pasta, rinse with cold water to stop cooking
  3. To make the dressing, roughly chop the sundried tomatoes and garlic
  4. Grate the cheese and tear up the basil leaves
  5. In a mixer jar or blender, add olive oil, pepper, garlic and sundried tomatoes
  6. Throw in the cheese and basil leaves
  7. Make a thick coating dressing, keeo aside
  8. Now for the fixins, halve the tomatoes, dice the feta cheese and olives
  9. Cut the basil leaves into thin strips or chop them finely
  10. In a bowl, add the cooked pasta, chopped fixins and pour the dressing, season with salt
  11. Gently mix everything together to coat
  12. Garnish with basil leaves
  13. Serve at room temperature
Notes
Add any fixins of your choice, chopped nuts etc.

You can also use regular salad tomatoes and quarter them

Use olives instead of sundried tomatoes or just basil, add chilli flakes, any flavour you like
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/pasta-salad/