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