Green Pasta Salad - soo refreshing and delicious

This is the delicious summer recipe you have been waiting for…

It has been a long time since I uploaded the latest hearty recipe. You know that I am a sweet tooth but today it is time for a refreshing but hearty summer recipe that is perfect for very hot days. The green pasta salad is inspired by fitgreenmind and I would really recommend you to check out her recipes. But back to this delicious meal which is perfect for BBQ, as a light lunch or just for eating in the afternoon as a delicious and vitamin rich snack. Eating it with a slice of bread is also very recommendable. Actually I am not a fan of salads themselves. I basically only eat salad with my meal in hotels which have a salad buffet. I don’t know why but it makes the salad more attractive and fancy :). Even though I have a special relationship with pasta salads because I love them. Even if you not feeling the same way you have to try this one because you will love it…….

Recipe (long form with background information and jokes)

Life is a combination of magic and pasta……

First of all I started by cooking the pasta. So I think everyone knows how to cook pasta. (At least I hope so) So I heated up some water, added salt, pasta in, let it cook, voila.

In the meantime I washed the zucchini, the eggplant and the cucumber and cut them in little pieces. You could basically use any kind of vegetables but I prefer using them. The zucchini and the eggplant I fried in a pan with some butter until they had a nice smokey flavour. I also sliced some tofu (I would recommend to slice it really thin in order to fry it crispy afterwards) and feta. The tofu I also added to a pan and roasted it in butter until it was really crispy. I also toasted a slice of toast and cut it in pieces.

By the time the noodles were cooked al dente I put them into a bowl and added vegetables, tofu, feta, toast, salad and spinach. Then I put in pesto and some pumpkin seed oil (you could also miss it but I really recommend you to use it). Combine everything. Stir,stir, stir, stir,….. Enjoy your salad.

PS: You can also rinse off the noodles with cold water after cooking them.

Recipe (short form)

Cook the pasta of your choice in salted water al dente.
Cut the veggies in little pieces and fry the zucchini and the eggplant with butter until they have a smokey flavour. Cut the tofu in thin slices and fry them in butter crispy. Crumble the feta and chop a toasted slice of toast.
Add everything to a bowl and add spinach and some salad. Then put in the pasta and combine everything. Some Pesto and pumpkin seed oil on top. Stir, stir, stir,… enjoy:)

Ingredients:

3-4 Portions