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Pasta Salad

Ready in 20 mins

Recipe by Graham 

Whether you take Pasta Salad on a picnic, in your lunchbox, or eat it at home, this is a perfect quick pasta salad. Light and lip-smacking, tasting of the Mediterranean and hot summer days.

Preparation Time

15 Minutes

Cooking Time

5 Minutes

Ingredients for Pasta Salad

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To serve 4:

10 oz pasta shapes such as penne or macaroni
8 oz cherry tomatoes
  sea salt
4 oz black olives
8 oz feta cheese
8 oz baby spinach
3 tablespoons lemon-infused olive oil
2 tablespoons toasted pine nuts
10 leaves fresh basil

How to Cook Pasta Salad

  1. Cook the pasta in a large pan of salted boiling water until al dente (check the instructions on the packet for best results). Drain the pasta, rinse in cold water, drain again, then tip it into a large bowl.
  2. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half. Halve and stone the olives and roughly crumble the Feta. Add the halved tomatoes to the pasta and sprinkle with sea salt. Add the olives, feta and spinach and drizzle with the lemon-infused olive oil. Add the pine nuts and basil and toss gently before serving.
GRAHAM'S HOT TIP:
Add a generous splash of olive oil to the water that you boil your pasta in. It helps to stop the pasta sticking.