Mar 10, 2011

Pesto Salad

This my final salad for this blogging marathon. I used store bought basil pesto for this salad. But it can be made in a snap at your kitchen. Check out my spinach-basil pesto recipe! I made this salad with olives and cherry tomatoes. It turned out to be very similar to my whole-wheat pasta salad except for the pesto dressing. You could make a whole batch of pesto and store it for weeks and make all kind of favorite pastas and pizzas with it. This was my quickie lunch this afternoon..

Ingredients
Whole grain pasta - 1 cup
Olives - 5
Cherry tomatoes
Basil pesto - 1 tablespoon
Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon
Salt and black pepper to taste
Fresh parmesan cheese

Directions
Cook the pasta according to the manufacturer's instructions. Since I do not like my salads to be warm, I rinse the pasta in cold water after cooking. Drain the water from the cooked pasta.

Combine the pesto, salt, pepper and lemon juice to the cooked pasta and mix well.

Add the cherry tomatoes and sliced olives to the pasta.

Plate the salad and add some freshly grated parmesan cheese on top..

Enjoy!

Check out the bloggers doing the Blogging Marathon, along with me..
30 Minutes Meals:Priya Mahadavan, Pavani,
Seven Days of Salad: lla
For Ongoing 7 Events: Priya Suresh, Suma Gandlur,Harini,
Kids Friendly: Vatsala, Jay,Kamalika
Seven Days of Rice: Veena,PriyaVaasu,Padma Rekha

28 comments:

  1. Incidentally I also made spinach basil pesto pasta for dinner last night... Looks so inviting...

    http://krithiskitchen.blogspot.com

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  2. Looks awesome Divya, thank you for joining us for the marathon..it was great seeing your salads..so many ideas!

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  3. Pesto pasta looks yummy. I love pesto and recently made kale pesto, will post any it soon. Nice clicks.

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  4. Looks really yummy!!!
    have pesto sauce in fridge..shud try it!!

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  5. yummy and tempting salad .... looks awesome

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  6. first time here lovely blog..salad luks yummy

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  7. HI Divya,
    how are you?
    Nice clicks and refreshing salad.

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  8. pasta salad with pesto looks yummy!
    love the tomatoes and olives
    Smitha
    Smitha's Spicy Flavors

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  9. you seems to have a gorgeous collection of salad recipes, bookmarked it, glad to follow u

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  10. Fresh and tasty salad...
    All ur series of salads are healthy and rocking

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  11. Wat a fabulous looking salad, looks yumm!

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  12. Simple and delicious. I have some pesto at home. Am sure gonna try this.

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  13. Love the pesto...Simply superb salad..

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  14. Fabulous delish. I love pasta of any kind. Yummy Salad.

    Hamsamlini Chandrasekaran,
    http://indianyummykitchen.blogspot.com

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  15. Salad sounds simple yet yummy and a comforting one!

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  16. Very colorful and inviting salad. Love the idea of using pesto in a salad....

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  17. First time here...you got a lovely space...Salad looks super colourful....following your space..

    FunWidFud

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  18. Looks heavenly Divya ! first time visitor and happy to follw your blog :)
    Cheers
    Kalyani

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  19. pesto is my fav !! thanks for this recipe :)
    do check out my food blog ! happy cooking !

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  20. I surely did have a nice time looking at all of your beautiful food.... the pesto salad being no exception!Yum!

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  21. wow, that looks absolutely awesome, love your presentation :)

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