Pesto Pasta Salad Recipe

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 of spring onions

 1 Large Onion

 200g Black Olives (pitted and halved)

 150g Feta Cheese (crumbed) – (two rounds of Feta Cheese)

 1/2 cup of Basil Pesto

 Packet Spiral Pasta

 Olive Oil

Method:

 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.

Hope you enjoy this salad as much as I do!

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