Cold pasta salad with pesto, cherry tomato and rocket

The pesto version, to take along in a box

Active: 15 min 760 kcal per person 24 g protein per person Lunch

Protein source: white beans · Carb source: pasta

meal prep season: summer

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Ingredients for 4 people

  • 400 g penne
  • 150 g vegan pesto
  • 400 g white beans, canned, drained and rinsed
  • 400 g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 100 g rocket
  • 40 g pine nuts
  • 10 tbsp lemon juice
  • 10 tbsp olive oil
  • to taste salt and pepper

Method

  1. Cook the penne in salted water according to the packet. Drain and rinse cold under the tap.
  2. Toast the pine nuts for 3 min in a dry pan until they colour. Shake regularly.
  3. Mix the pesto with the lemon juice and olive oil into a runny dressing.
  4. Toss the cold pasta with the dressing, the white beans and the cherry tomatoes.
  5. Season with salt and pepper.
  6. Only stir in the rocket and pine nuts just before eating.

Cold pasta salad with pesto, cherry tomato and rocket

Tip

Take the rocket along separately in a bag. Under the dressing it wilts within the hour.

Check the label

Not every variety of these products is vegan.

  • vegan pesto: Often contains Parmesan or pecorino. Choose a pesto labelled vegan, or make it yourself with basil, pine nuts, garlic, olive oil and nutritional yeast.

Keeps for 3 days in the fridge

Recommended brands per category are shown next to every ingredient the brand list knows.

peulvruchten

  • AH · Albert Heijn
  • Boni Selection · Colruyt
  • Carrefour · Carrefour
  • Delhaize · Delhaize
  • Everyday · Colruyt

pasta en granen

  • Barilla · Delhaize, Colruyt, Albert Heijn, Lidl, Carrefour
  • De Cecco · Delhaize, Colruyt, Carrefour
  • Riso Gallo · Delhaize, Colruyt
  • Tilda · Delhaize, Carrefour
  • Tipiak · Delhaize, Carrefour

pindakaas en noten

  • Calve 100% · Delhaize, Colruyt, Albert Heijn, Carrefour
  • Everyday · Colruyt
  • AH puur · Albert Heijn

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This recipe appears in: Basic monthly menu, 28 days