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How To make Sunflower and Pasta Salad
4 oz Bow-tie pasta, cooked
1 c Cherry tomatoes, halved
1/4 c Sliced black olives
DRESSING:
2 T Lemon juice
2 T Sunflower oil
Garlic powder Black pepper 1/2 Cucumber, sliced
4 Sliced radishes
2 T Roasted sunflower seeds
Combine salad ingredients. Mix together dress in jar and shake until blended. Pour over pasta mixture and toss lightly. Chill several hours or overnight, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with additional sunflower seeds.
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For #nutfree option swap the pine nuts for sunflower seeds
For #glutenfree option swap the spelt pasta for your favourite gluten-free pasta
For #oilfree swap pine nuts for soaked cashews and the olive oil for water
Ingredients:
- 250g spelt pasta
- 80g rocket
- 200g baby tomato
- 2 cucumber
- 1.5 cup butter beans (1 can, drained and rinsed)
- 2 tbsp toasted pinenuts
- Salt/pepper to taste
Pesto:
- 3 tbsp toasted pine nuts
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 cup basil
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
Optional:
- 50g plant-based feta
Instructions:
- Cook your pasta as per the packet instructions. Once drained, rinse under cold water until the pasta are cold Wash and chop the veggies.
- Add the garlic, basil, olive oil, nutritional yeast and 3 tbsp pine nuts to a small blender or food processor and process until smooth.
- To a bowl add the rocket, tomato, cucumber, beans, pasta and 2 tbsp of pine nuts. Cover with the pesto dressing and stir well until thoroughly combined.
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Sunflower Seed Pasta Salad (with Chicken)
Delicious and easy pasta salad.
Dressing:
1/2 cup mayo
1/4 cup Ranch dressing
2 tsp red wine vinegar
3 tbsp milk
1 tbsp minced dry onion (or use a couple of tbsp of minced fresh onion)
1/4 tsp mustard
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp parsley (or 1 tbsp fresh, finely chopped)
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp salt (to taste)
Main part of salad
1 cup of uncooked pasta, cooked drained and rinsed in cold water, drain
3/4 cup broccoli florets
1/2 cup cubed cheese
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped cucumber
1/4 cup finely chopped carrot
1/4 cup shelled sunflower seeds (I used the salted kind because that's all I could find)
Add or remove any veggie that you would like in this
1 cup diced cooked chicken (optional)
2 boiled eggs chopped (optional)
Vegan Sunflower Seed Ranch Dressing - NO OIL RECIPE!
This super tasty vegan sunflower seed ranch dressing will get your taste buds dancing!
The fresh flavors of this dressing are fantastic on a salad, pasta or potatoes.
This is one of my favorite vegan dressings ever! Best of all it is a whole food plant based recipe that does not use any added oil :-)
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