Pink Penne Pasta Salad - Real Recipes from Mums

I am so not ready to admit Winter is coming, and give into the unhealthy eating and soup – but today was COLD! So I thought I would mix up a healthy salad with roast vegetables and pasta. Traditional flavours and foods that I love on a cold day! You can use regular Penne but I decided to make beetroot Penne to go along with it.
I also tend to roast a whole pumpkin at a time and save the leftovers for pumpkin bread or other meals – it saves time later (I quarter and remove the seeds, in this recipe you will probably need to leave the quarters in longer than the cubes. You can also remove the skin once it is cooked)!

Ingredients (serves 4)

2 Medium to large Beetroots
250g Wheat Flour
1/2 Large Sweet Potato
1/4 Medium Pumpkin
Dash Olive Oil (optional Coconut Oil)
Sprinkle Caraway Seeds
Handful Walnuts
250g Feta - Goats or Cow
3 Cloves of Garlic
500g Rocket (and/or Spinach)

Method

Chop up the Pumpkin, Sweet Potato and one Beetroot into 2-3cm cubes. Slice Garlic into about 4mm pieces. Mix with olive oil or coconut oil, sprinkle with Caraway Seeds and place on roasting tray and into the oven at 180 degrees.
Juice one Beetroot - you will need 90ml of juice (the rest you can drink or save for something else)
Set up the Philips Noodle and Pasta Maker with the Penne attachment head. Put a pot of hot water on the stove to boil. Add the flour to the drum and add the Beetroot juice as per the instructions. Cut into Penne length pieces as it extrudes. Add to water and cook until al dente, drain and mix with a dash of olive oil to keep them from sticking.
Check on the roast vegetables. They should be done by now (30-45 minutes). Remove vegetables. Add Pasta, Vegetables, Rocket (and/or Spinach) to a bowl and mix. Chop feta into cubes and mix through. Top with chopped walnuts.

32 Comments

- - mom160421 said
  - 12 May 2016
    10:17 am
This has some wonderful ingredients – can’t wait to try it.

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 10 Jan 2016
    4:33 pm
pink and pasta – oh yumm

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 30 Nov 2015
    6:55 pm
Pink pasta so very refreshing!

- - mom113177 said
  - 04 Nov 2015
    7:21 pm
I really need to get my hands on the Phillips pasta maker! This recipe is divine!

- - mom112217 said
  - 28 Oct 2015
    11:44 am
I also like pasta and salad together,love this recipe!

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 22 Oct 2015
    9:18 pm
Looks and sounds very healthy food

- - mom152736 said
  - 17 Oct 2015
    11:45 pm
thats a lovely salad twist. i like it thanks for sharing such a lovely recipe

- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Oct 2015
    5:43 pm
oh…wow… that looks really amazing! it looks professional and really appetizing! i can tell that it tastes great too

- - mom94378 said
  - 02 Aug 2015
    3:36 pm
Wow, i do like this.

- - mom57522 said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    10:30 pm
Roasted vegetables are always a winner.

- - dannsbuild said
  - 30 Jun 2015
    5:09 pm
Very nice recipe. I will have to show this to my mum. This is really her kind of dish.

- - am1979amanda said
  - 29 Jun 2015
    1:58 pm
Yummy will try this thanks good recipe

- - am1979amanda said
  - 21 Jun 2015
    3:53 pm
Looks amazing will try this thanks

- - mom118423 said
  - 11 Jun 2015
    6:23 pm
Delicious

- - mom108638 said
  - 16 May 2015
    12:10 pm
This salad looks so amazingly colourful ..thanks for sharing

- - dannsbuild said
  - 05 May 2015
    10:15 pm
Pink pasta sounds like something my girls would like to eat. An interesting recipe.

- - mom107723 said
  - 30 Apr 2015
    7:09 pm
Some great ingredients work well together, thanks for the share.

- - vanyadhanya said
  - 28 Apr 2015
    8:37 pm
What a lovely idea; going to try it out soon

- - mom74959 said
  - 27 Apr 2015
    8:36 pm
Love getting new and interesting salad recipes.

- - robyn_smithwick said
  - 27 Apr 2015
    5:30 pm
I love the idea of beetroot pasta! Is it hard to juice a beetroot? They are rock hard at the best of times.
- miss emmajane replied
  
  04 May 2015 , 10:03 pm
  You really need a electric juicer or grater/food processor to get the juice out fast. I would not try putting it into a blender and then straining. They have a lot of juice in them so I found one beetroot made more than enough juice for the recipe.