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This recipe is for Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Salad. Sun-Dried Tomatoes are a wonderful cupboard essential, and along with a few other ingredients are turned into this yummy salad. You can mix up the salad veggies and add what you like, but the combination that I used tasted like a pizza in a salad to me! This salad is a real summer time salad, and is great to have in the fridge for lunch during the week. It would be equally as good as a picnic dish or a barbecue side dish.
A Simple List of Ingredients:
This recipe is for Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Salad. Sun-Dried Tomatoes are a wonderful cupboard essential, and along with a few other ingredients are turned into this yummy salad. You can mix up the salad veggies and add what you like, but the combination that I used tasted like a pizza in a salad to me! This salad is a real summer time salad, and is great to have in the fridge for lunch during the week. It would be equally as good as a picnic dish or a barbecue side dish.
A Simple List of Ingredients:
1. Spiral Pasta
2. Pitted Olives
3. Cherry Tomatoes
4. Salt and Pepper
5. Sun-Dried Tomatoes
6. Red Wine Vinegar
7. Olive Oil
8. Garlic
9. Fresh Basil Leaves
10. Cheddar Cheese
Bismillah, let's begin!
First, to make the dressing, you'll need a blender of some sort. I used this mini one.
Crack open a jar of sun-dried tomatoes.
Drain the oil out of the tomatoes. You can keep the oil in a jar and use for another salad.
Put the sun-dried tomatoes into the blender.
Peel 4 garlic cloves.
Add to the blender.
Season with salt and pepper.
Next, you'll need red wine vinegar.
Add 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar.
Cover the blender ..
.. and blitz!
Blitz until smooth.
Add about 1 cup olive oil, or as much as you like.
Blitz again until smooth, and taste for seasoning. This dressing makes enough for 1 large salad or two small.
Take 2 mugs spiral pasta.
Cook the pasta in boiling water according to packet instructions. Once cooked, drain and rinse under cold water. Place into a large bowl.
Add half the dressing.
I stored the remaining dressing in the tomato jar in the fridge until needed.
Give the pasta a stir until the dressing coats each piece.
Add a handful pitted olives. You can add more if you're an olive fan!
Take a box of cherry tomatoes.
Slice in half and add to the bowl.
Add a handful chopped basil leaves.
Finally, grate in Cheddar cheese, to taste.
Give the salad a final stir.
Serve immediately if you want to ...
.. but it tastes better the next day.
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