This pesto pasta salad recipe is bursting with bold, fresh flavors! It's light, healthy, and sure to please everyone. It's prime time for fall picnics, and this light and fresh pesto pasta salad is just the ticket.

Pasta salad lasts for days in the fridge, making it great for potlucks and picnics. Before tossing the pesto with the pasta, you'll add three simple upgrades: lemon juice, mayo, and spinach. Pasta salads are the ultimate summer move, especially when it's too hot to use the oven.

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This pesto pasta salad recipe is bursting with bold, fresh flavors! It's light, healthy, and sure to please everyone. It's prime time for fall picnics, and this light and fresh pesto pasta salad is just the ticket.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pesto pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pesto pasta salad:

1. {Prepare of For the pesto.
2. {Make ready 1 pack of cashews.
3. {Prepare 1/2 cup of olive oil.
4. {Get 1/4 cup of Parmesan.
5. {Make ready of Basil.
6. {Prepare of Large handful of spinach.
7. {Make ready of Chop up:.
8. {Make ready of Cherry tomatoes.
9. {Make ready of Olives.
10. {Make ready of Feta.
11. {Prepare of Broccoli.

Adding an easy homemade pesto to pasta salad elevates it to much more than a picnic or barbecue side. Pasta salads can be served as a main dish with a side of grilled corn on the cob and fresh fruit, or as side dish served with something off the grill. A scrumptious pesto-flavored salad with crunchy lettuce and yummy noodles. Enjoy this veggie pesto pasta salad with cucumber, peas, cherry tomatoes and basil for an easy family meal.

Steps to make Pesto pasta salad:

1. Heat the chickpea pasta in a saucepan over medium heat until ready and set aside to cool.
2. Blend all of the pesto ingredients together until smooth and set aside.
3. Chop up all of the vegetables. Mix your desired amount of pesto into the pasta and then add the vegetables. Serve into bowls and enjoy!.
4. Leftover pesto can be frozen to use in the future or can be used as a dip.

It's great for a packed lunch or summery picnic. This chicken pesto pasta salad is quick, easy, and a great way to use up leftover chicken. To make this pesto pasta salad really simple, I used rotisserie chicken. You can use any pre-cooked chicken. The perfect quick + easy side dish.

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