Green Goddess Pasta Salad
Brace yourself for a tangy burst of flavor, a hint of sweetness, and a delightful crunch combined with your fave pasta, all enveloped in a refreshing creaminess of a Green Goddess Salad dressing that will leave you craving for more.
Ingredients
Ingredients for the Salad
- 250 gm dry pasta
- 1 red capsicum (or bell pepper)
- 2 stalks of celery
- ¼ cup pine nuts toasted (optional)
- 1 head of broccoli
- 4 green shallots
Green Goddess Dressing Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- 1 cup fresh parsley leaves
- 2 tabs lime juice
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ cup Greek yoghurt plain
- 1 tab honey
- 1 tab rice wine vinegar
- ¼ cup cashews raw
- 1 clove of garlic
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp fresh black pepper
- water to thin if necessary
Instructions
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Place the pasta into salted boiling water and cook per instructions on the packet. When cooked, drain and rinse with cold water and allow to drain completely.
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Cut the broccoli into florets and blanch in hot water for 5 minutes till firm but tender or microwave them if you prefer. Pop into iced water after cooking for 5 minutes, drain to remove all the water.
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Dice the celery, red capsicum and finely chop the shallots.
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Toast the pine nuts till just golden brown. (be careful they burn really quickly)
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Pop all the ingredients into a large bowl and make the dressing.
How to make the dressing
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Into your blender pour all the liquid ingredients, olive oil, yoghurt, vinegar, honey and lime juice.
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Then pop all the other ingredients on top and blitz till combined and looks creamy.
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Pour over the bowl of salad ingredients and mix till the green dressing coats everything. Serve and eat asap.
Recipe Notes
- The salad is lovely served straight away. After it goes into the fridge the dressing tends to soak into the salad and it may become stiff. Add a little olive oil if you like to loosen it up or leave out of the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Swap out the fresh basil for spinach leaves if you prefer.
- To make this dressing vegan use the original recipe which has nutritional yeast and omit the yoghurt and honey.