Pasta salad with roasted tomatoes, green beans, tuna, and cucumber-ricotta vinaigrette

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10min

Easy

A cold pasta salad is really the ultimate 'bomb' for me! It is the perfect balance between easy, healthy, and incredibly tasty. The combination of sweet cherry tomatoes and savory tuna is already a classic, but the creamy ricotta-cucumber sauce really completes it. It is wonderfully fresh, filling, and you can have it on the table in no time. Ideal to consciously enjoy during a busy day! Moreover, it is the perfect 'meal prep' for a fresh lunch at school or in the office; just stir and you have a party in your lunchbox.

A cold pasta salad is really the ultimate 'bomb' for me! It is the perfect balance between easy, healthy, and incredibly tasty. The combination of sweet cherry tomatoes and savory tuna is alre ...
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Ingredients

What do you need?
Quantity: 1P

Pasta salad
50g pasta, cooked al dente
50g green beans, cooked al dente
1 handful of watercress
100g cherry tomatoes + 1 tbsp olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder
1 can of tuna in juice

Cucumber ricotta vinaigrette
0.5 cucumber
juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp canola oil
1 shallot
salt and pepper
125g ricotta

50g pasta, cooked al dente
50g green beans, cooked al dente
1 handful of watercress
100g cherry tomatoes + 1 tbsp olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder
1 can of tuna in juice


0.5 cucumber
juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp canola oil
1 shallot
salt and pepper
125g ricotta

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Make it veggie!

Replace the tuna with grilled chickpeas or white beans (just sautΓ© with olive oil, pepper, salt, and paprika powder). This way you get the same bite and proteins, completely veggie!

Preparation method

How do you make this?

Preheat the oven to 220Β°C.

Mix the cherry tomatoes with olive oil, pepper, salt, and garlic powder.

Roast them for 6 to 8 minutes in the oven until they are slightly puffed. Let cool.

Blend the half cucumber, lemon juice, rapeseed oil, shallot, ricotta, pepper, and salt into a smooth vinaigrette.

Cook the pasta and beans al dente (if not done yet) and let them cool.

Combine the pasta with the beans, watercress, and the vinaigrette.

Add the tuna and finish with the puffed tomatoes.

Serve immediately or keep cool as a lunchbox.

Tips

  • Use short pasta like fusilli, penne, or farfalle: they hold the sauce better.
  • Let everything cool down well before mixing, this keeps your salad fresh.
  • Extra crunch? Add some roasted pine nuts.
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