Teriyaki Spinach Pasta Salad With Pine Nuts

I’m all the time in search of tasty concepts to deliver to gatherings. I’ve a couple of stipulations: the dish have to be moveable and the dish have to be straightforward to place collectively. If I do make it out of the home after 7 PM, I’m normally in a rush after working the homework and dinner gauntlet. I like pasta salad as a result of it may be made upfront and doesn’t require heating up. This spinach pasta salad recipe takes a lighter strategy to conventional pasta salads. I introduced this Teriyaki Spinach Pasta Salad with pine nuts to my final e book membership and it was an enormous hit. This straightforward pasta salad recipe has the perfect taste!

You’ll Love This Flavorful Recipe: Teriyaki Spinach Bow Tie Pasta Salad With Pine Nuts

This pasta salad with spinach has numerous child spinach leaves. We aren’t simply speaking lip service for the spinach. This helps or not it’s a lighter, decrease carb model of a pasta salad and it has nice texture. The bow tie pasta salad with spinach is in contrast to most you might have had earlier than in that the pasta is only one ingredient- not the principle ingredient. You’ll love this spinach pasta salad recipe as a result of the Teriyaki sauce and the mandarin oranges simply makes it pop with taste!

Prep Time quarter-hour
Serves 4

Teriyaki Pasta Salad Substances:

• 1 bag of recent child spinach
• 8 oz. of bow-tie pasta (AKA farfalle pasta, which implies butterfly in Italian)
• 1/3 cup pine nuts
• 4 oz. can of mandarin oranges
• 1/2 cup of dried cranberries
• 1/3 cup Teriyaki sauce
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar (could substitute purple wine vinegar)
• 1/2 tsp. onion powder
• 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp. floor ginger
• 1 Tbsp. sugar
• salt and pepper to style

Rotini pasta or penne pasta make substitute for bowtie pasta.

How To Make Spinach Pasta Salad:

Boil the bow tie pasta in salted water based on package deal instructions for about 10 minutes. Drain pasta and rinse with chilly water.  Set cooked pasta apart. 

In a big bowl throw within the recent spinach, pine nuts, can of drained mandarin oranges, pasta, and dried cranberries. 

In a smaller bowl whisk collectively all of the elements from the Teriyaki sauce on down.  Season with salt and pepper to your choice. 

Calmly toss the dressing with the spinach combination and bow ties till all the pieces is evenly coated.

If you’re taking this salad to a gathering or social gathering, wait to toss within the dressing proper earlier than serving.  This salad doesn’t retailer nicely because the spinach will get soggy and wilt as soon as the dressing sits on it so solely make what you’ll eat.

You may serve this as a vegetarian pasta meal on Meatless Monday or you’ll be able to increase the protein of this salad by including a grilled hen breast or a chunk salmon. This Spinach Pasta Salad is straightforward to make in a pinch should you preserve the elements in your pantry.  All you have to do is seize a recent bag of spinach. It’s the excellent recipe for warm summer time days.

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