Anything goes pasta salad. Light and fresh, pasta salad is perfect for summertime. It's a quick and easy to make dish to bring to a cookout or potluck. Pasta salad is also hardy enough to be a light summer dinner.
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Ingredients of Anything goes pasta salad
- Prepare of For the salad.
- It's 1/2 of onion, chopped.
- You need 1 of carrot, sliced.
- It's 3/4 packages of sliced button mushrooms.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of sliced sun dried tomatoes.
- You need 1 head of broccoli.
- You need 1 cup of frozen peas, defrosted.
- You need 1/2 cup of pine nuts, toasted.
- Prepare 2 small of packages of tortellini (I used one plain cheese and one spinach and cheese).
- Prepare of For the dressing.
- It's 1 tbsp of dijon mustard.
- You need 1 1/2 tbsp of sour cream.
- You need 1 tbsp of mayonnaise or miracle whip.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of Italian dressing.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of olive oil, extra virgin.
- Prepare 1 of salt.
- Prepare 1 of ground black pepper.
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Anything goes pasta salad step by step
- Boil tortellini according to o instructions.
- Chop up then banche broccoli in boiling water for about 10 minutes.
- Chop up carrots and onion, set aside.
- Toast pine nuts until golden then set aside.
- Sauteé mushrooms in extra EVOO. After a couple of minutes add sun dried tomatoes and garlic. Continue to sauteé until the mushrooms are soft and golden. Take off heat and set aside.
- In a smallish bowl, mix up dressing ingredients.
- Mix together all the veggies and tortellini in a big bowl then add dressing (use as much or as little dressing as you like!).
- Add parmesan cheese ontop (if you want!) Serve at room temperature and enjoy :).
The ingredients are simple and flexible, so you can make this when you are inundated by summer produce or you can adapt to what's in season in the fall and winter. A wide variety of goes pasta salad options are available to you, such as eco-friendly, disposable. Anything can go in this salad, so it's a perfect way to get rid of the leftovers from my previous cooking. Anything Goes Pasta is a community recipe submitted by anacabana and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe. Pour over your cooked pasta and grate over applewood smoked cheese and serve - mmmmmmmm.