Easy Summer Arugula Pasta Salad
This easy Summer Arugula Pasta Salad is delicious, fresh and full of flavours. Made simply with 5 main ingredients, it’s an easy budget friendly and delicious vegan pasta salad. This easy vegan summer pasta salad is incredibly simple and quick to make, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a force to be reckoned with. It’s loaded with fresh summer flavours… imagine sweet tomatoes with herby green pesto and spicy arugula salad. It’s so incredibly easy and delicious.
Ingredients
- 1 pound Pasta Penne
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- Juice from ½ Lemon
- 2 cups Arugula Salad Rinsed
- 10 Green Olives Chopped
- 1 pound Tomatoes Chopped
- 4 tbsp Green Pesto Vegan
- 1 tbsp Dried Thyme
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- ½ cup Cashew Cheese or Feta Cheese Optional
Instructions
- Cook the pasta as instructed on the package.
- Once the pasta is cooked, drain away the water and add the pasta to a large salad bowl. Drizzle olive oil and lemon juice over the pasta. Add green pesto, dried thyme, garlic powder, salt and pepper and mix together until all the pasta is coated in seasonings
- Finally add the arugula salad, chopped olives and chopped tomatoes and combine. Serve and enjoy.
Notes
Optional: serve topped with vegan cashew cheese of feta cheese