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  • Serves 8
  • 30 minutes
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 9 Ingredients

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This pesto pasta salad is a light and refreshing salad for a BBQ.


Ingredients (serves 8)

  • 2 1/2 Cups Dried pasta
  • 1 Cup Pitted kalamata olives
  • 1 Medium Red capsicum, chopped
  • 3 Green onions, sliced
  • 80g Baby spinach
  • 250g Mini Roma tomatoes, sliced
  • 1 Medium Avocado, chopped
  • 1/3 Cup Basil pesto
  • 2 Tbsp Lemon juice

Method

  1. Cook pasta following packet directions, refresh under cold water and drain
  2. Place pasta, olives, capsicum, onion, spinach, tomato and avocado in a bowl.
  3. Place pesto and lemon juice in a small bowl, mix and season with salt and pepper.
  4. Toss gently the dressing with the salad and serve.

  • I am always looking for new salad recipe ideas and this one sounds fantastic. It’s my kind of salad – except without the olives (for me) perhaps!

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  • Yum and how easy is it to put together!

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  • This looks delicious… Thanks for sharing 🙂

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  • I am not a fan of pasta in a salad but I must admit this does look nice.

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  • Looks really fresh and tasty, can\’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

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  • Been looking for a decent pesto pasta recipe, thank you so much for sharing.

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  • This looks fantastic minus the capsicum that i’m allergic to. Can’t wait to make it.

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  • This quick and easy salad sounds wonderfully delicious; thanks for sharing!.

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  • Sounds perfect for me this weekend with my daughter not being home this weekend….I have dining freedom

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  • A nice salad and change from mayo!

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  • wow this looks like it will be really nice. i haven’t eaten too many pesto based recipes though


    • thanks muchly for posting this. it is a divine recipe and very tempting

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  • looks great

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  • I love how fresh and colourful this pasta recipe looks, will not only taste great but look good on the dinner table too :-).

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  • I love anything with pesto! And this pasta salad looks so tasty and fresh too. Thanks for sharing!

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  • Made this for lunch yesterday with my friends dropping in for Lunch. So easy and tasty!
    I made another batch for Dinner for the family along with BBQ fish. Went down a treat!
    Thanks for sharing..

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  • all of my favourite ingredients….I cant wait to make this!

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  • Sounds delicious. I will be sure to give this a try.

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  • This looks like a really unusual salad. Would me nice to make something different. A good healthy side for dinner.

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  • YUM, this is right up my alley, I’ll definitely be trying this at our next barbecue 🙂

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  • Yummy – new recipe to try. Thank you 🙂

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