Healthy and fresh salad - pesto pasta salad
Be ready to have a quick, healthy and delicios meal!
Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Course Salad
Cuisine Italian
- 300 g pasta
- 15 g fresh basil
- 40 g spinach
- 20 g pine nuts
- 3 cloves garlic
- ½ lemon zest
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 50 g parmesan cheese
- 200 g cherry tomatoes
- 400 g olives
- 150 g mozzarella
Boil 300 g of pasta and let it cool, you could also boil it in advance or the day before.
For the pesto follow the next steps: in a food processor put the fresh basil, pine nuts, garlic, parmesan cheese, zest lemon, and sauteed spinach.
Mix everything together and then add olive oil and mix it again until a cream is formed. Add salt and pepper to taste
Once the pasta is cool all you have to do is to bring all the ingredients together. In a bowl put the pasta, pesto olives, mozzarella, and cherry tomatoes and mix it all together.