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Penne Pesto Salad with Wilted Spinach and Tomatoes

Summer time, is salad time. This recipe will please the vegetarians.

You Will Need:

Dressing
Salad
  • 250 g penne
  • Ina Paarman’s Garlic Pepper Seasoning
  • baby spinach, about 2 handfuls
  • 8 pieces of Ina Paarman’s Sun-dried Tomatoes, sliced
  • 1 cup (250 ml) cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 t (5 ml) sugar
  • 1 bunch of spring onions, sliced
  • ½ cup kalamata olives, pipped
  • 1 wheel of feta cheese, crumbled
  • fresh mint

Method:

Mix all the dressing ingredients in a screw top jar.

Leave to stand.

Boil the pasta, done to your taste.

Drain pasta, return to the pot, season with 1 t (5 ml) Garlic Pepper Seasoning, toss, while still hot, with the dressing.

Line a large platter with spinach and decant hot pasta over spinach.

Mix the Sun-dried Tomatoes together with the cherry tomatoes and season with Garlic Pepper Seasoning and a little sugar.

Top pasta with tomatoes, spring onions, olives and feta.

Just before serving top with a small handful of roughly chopped mint leaves.

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