Pasta salad with olives and sun-dried tomato

The Mediterranean version, cold and portable

Active: 15 min 660 kcal per person 15 g protein per person Pasta

Protein source: pasta · Carb source: pasta

meal prep season: summer

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Ingredients for 4 people

  • 400 g penne or fusilli, cooked and cooled
  • 100 g black olives, pitted
  • 10 tbsp capers, drained
  • 100 g sun-dried tomatoes, in strips
  • 1 red pepper, diced
  • 10 tbsp olive oil
  • 10 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 20 g fresh basil
  • to taste salt and pepper

Method

  1. Cook the pasta al dente and let it cool.
  2. Mix the pasta with the olives, capers, sun-dried tomato and pepper.
  3. Make a dressing of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper.
  4. Mix everything together and garnish with basil.

Pasta salad with olives and sun-dried tomato

Tip

The flavours keep developing, so this salad tastes even better the next day. Stir a can of white beans or 200 g of chickpeas through the salad to lift the protein from 15 g to well over 20 g per person.

Basic recipes used here

Keeps for 2 days in the fridge

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pasta en granen

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

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