Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pesto pasta salad is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Pesto pasta salad is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta salad:

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

Cook it until it is al dente, rather than too soft. While the pasta is cooking, cook the peas. 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).

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

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). Drain and rinse with cold water and place in a large mixing bowl. Spiral-shaped pasta, such as rotini or fusilli, works great in pesto pasta salad because the shapes hold the pesto nicely. Use any spiral-shaped pasta you like, whether it's traditional wheat pasta, gluten-free pasta, quinoa pasta, or even spiral-shaped pasta made from veggies.

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