Pasta salad with roasted vegetables

  • main course
  • Preparation time: > 30 minutes
  • For 4 people

Ingredients

  • 300 g pasta (fusilli, penne of orichiette )
  • Salt
  • For the sauce
  • 4 el pesto
  • 1 dl white wine vinegar (preferably white balsamic)
  • pepper
  • For the vegetables
  • 1 small aubergine ( ca. 200 gr ), in slices
  • 1 yellow pepper or green pepper, in strips
  • 1 orange pepper or red pepper, in strips
  • 3 small courgettes, lengthwise in slices
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • pepper
  • fresh basil

Description / preparation

Pasta salad is tasty, easy to prepare and a healthy and complete dish or as a side dish for a barbeque.
Cook the pasta in boiling water with salt al dente. Drain the pasta and keep 1 dl boiled water when making the sauce. Stir the pesto, white wine vinegar and pepper through the boiled water. Save 2 tablespoons of sauce and stir the rest through the drained pasta and let this mingle for 20 minutes. Sprinkle the aubergine strips, pepper strips and courgette strips with olive oil and grill them under a warm grill (cover the griddle with baking parchment) for 10 minutes. Regularly turn them over. Slice halve of the grilled vegetables in pieces and mix these with the pasta. Divide the remaining vegetables on the salad on a plate and sprinkle these with the remaining sauce. Garnish your dish with fresh basil.

Pasta salad is tasty, easy to prepare and a healthy and complete dish or as a side dish for a barbeque.
Cook the pasta in boiling water with salt al dente. Drain the pasta and keep 1 dl boiled water when making the sauce. Stir the pesto, white wine vinegar and pepper through the boiled water. Save 2 tablespoons of sauce and stir the rest through the drained pasta and let this mingle for 20 minutes. Sprinkle the aubergine strips, pepper strips and courgette strips with olive oil and grill them under a warm grill (cover the griddle with baking parchment) for 10 minutes. Regularly turn them over. Slice halve of the grilled vegetables in pieces and mix these with the pasta. Divide the remaining vegetables on the salad on a plate and sprinkle these with the remaining sauce. Garnish your dish with fresh basil.



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