Three Pepper Pesto Pasta Salad
Super meal for those meat free days! If you have a love affair with pesto, this is the salad for you, hot or cold!
Ingredients
- 3 Peppers (Red, Yellow & Green)
- 1 bunch Spring Onions
- 1 large Onion
- 200 g Black Olives (pitted and halved)
- 150 g Feta Cheese (crumbed) - (two rounds of Feta Cheese)
- ½ cup Basil Pesto
- 1 packet Spiral Pasta
- Olive Oil
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to instructions on the package. Make sure the water is salted.
- Remove pasta from heat and strain when pasta is cooked, but still firm (al dente).
- Slice peppers, onion and spring onions in long thin strips, add olives.
- Add to oven dish and drizzle Olive Oil over it with 2 table spoons of basil pesto.
- Place little water (+/- 1/3 cup) in dish to prevent vegetables from drying out.
- Place dish in oven and grill for 20 min.
- Stir in between to make sure all peppers are evenly grilled.
- Add all the ingredients in a salad bowl except the feta cheese, mix in the rest of the basil pesto then lastly add in the feta cheese.
- When cooled cover and place in fridge.