Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pesto pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Cook the pasta in salted water according to package instructions. Then drain it and rinse in cold water. Cover and refrigerate pasta until cold.

Pesto pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pesto pasta salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pesto pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta salad:

1. Prepare For the pesto
2. Get 1 pack cashews
3. Get 1/2 cup olive oil
4. Make ready 1/4 cup Parmesan
5. Make ready Basil
6. Get Large handful of spinach
7. Get Chop up:
8. Take Cherry tomatoes
9. Prepare Olives
10. Take Feta
11. Take Broccoli

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Steps to make Pesto pasta salad:

1. Heat the chickpea pasta in a saucepan over medium heat until ready and set aside to cool
2. Blend all of the pesto ingredients together until smooth and set aside
3. Chop up all of the vegetables. Mix your desired amount of pesto into the pasta and then add the vegetables. Serve into bowls and enjoy!
4. Leftover pesto can be frozen to use in the future or can be used as a dip

Add the pasta and cook until al dente, or according to package directions. Add a few tablespoons of pasta water to thin the pesto to evenly coat the pasta. To assemble the pasta salad, pour all of the pesto over the pasta and toss until the pasta is lightly and evenly coated, adding a tiny splash of reserved pasta cooking water if necessary to thin it out. Then add the cherry tomatoes, arugula, remaining toasted pepitas, and any optional add-ins (olives, chickpeas and/or cheese). Pasta salads are the ultimate summer move, especially when it's too hot to use the oven.

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