Pasta Salad With Broccoli & Feta Cheese Recipe is a healthy and nutritious salad recipe with pasta. This recipe is apt to be taken out while on treks or family outing in warm weather. Cooked cold pasta tossed along with vegetables like Cherry tomatoes, Broccoli and Feta Cheese in a lemony dressing with mixed herbs and pepper is a bliss to fix small hunger pangs.
Serve Pasta Salad With Broccoli & Feta Cheese Recipe with a sandwich of your choice for light lunch or serve alongside an elaborate meal of Roasted Vegetable Pizza Pockets, Cream of Celery Soup and Yogurt Panna Cotta.
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Cuisine: Italian Recipes
Course: Side Dish
Diet: Vegetarian
Equipments Used: Saucepan With Handle (Tea/Sauces)
Cooks in 20 M
Total in 40 M
To begin making Pasta Salad With Broccoli & Feta Cheese Recipe,
In a large pot, add water and bring it to a boil. Once the water has boiled, add a teaspoon of salt.
Add the pasta to the boiling water and cook until the pasta is cooked till al dente (just cooked). This process should take a good 12-15 minutes to get an al dente pasta.
Once the pasta has cooked, drain the water and run the cooked pasta under running water to stop the cooking process and prevent the pasta from sticking to each other.
Drizzle some oil on top of pasta and make sure to coat all of the pasta with the oil so that the pasta doesn't stick to each other.
Cook the broccoli florets in a pressure cooker with 2 tablespoon of water for 1 whistle and immediately remove the pressure under running tap water, this is done to keep the broccoli fresh and tender.
In a small mixing bowl, prepare the dressing by adding parsley leaves, oregano, lemon juice, crushed peppercorns, salt along with olive oil. Whisk well until it combines.
Take a large mixing bowl, add cooked pasta (cold/at room temperature), veggies - broccoli, cherry tomatoes,crumbled feta cheese and dressing to it. Toss everything together gently and adjust the seasoning.
Serve Pasta Salad With Broccoli & Feta Cheese Recipe Roasted Vegetable Pizza Pockets, Cream of Celery Soup and Yogurt Panna Cotta to make a complete weekend dinner menu.