This recipe is perfect for dinner and make sure you have leftovers for lunch the next day. Portable Food! We love it!
This delicious thing is not that pretty, but you can shoosh it up if you choose to. Think red tomatoes, think green basil and plenty of finely grated fluffy white parmesan and it doesn’t look so bad after all!
It is perfect for lunch the day after, so make enough to have leftovers! Originally in Portable Lunches, you can now add this to your Menu Builder! Yummers.
Need
- 500 Grams small pasta of choice
- Handful fresh basil plus some more
- Handfuls fresh Italian parsley, plus some more
- 3 cloves garlic
- 60 Grams balsamic vinegar
- 60 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 20 Grams coconut sugar
- 20 cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
- Handfuls kalamata olives, pitted
- 1 capsicum/bell pepper red, diced
- Handfuls capers
- A few anchovies in oil, cut into pieces
- 185 Grams tin tuna in oil
- Generous blanket of finely- grated parmesan cheese
Do
- 1
Cook pasta as per packet directions. Drain and place into large mixing bowl.
- 2
Place basil, parsley, garlic, vinegar, EVOO and sugar into Thermomix bowl and blend 20 sec/speed 10.
- 3
Scrape out and pour over pasta.
- 4
Add all remaining ingredients and garnish with extra herbs. Toss gently. Serve warm or cold. This will keep very well in the fridge for around a week.
More
This salad is perfect to take to the park or beach as it really has nothing in it that will perish without refrigeration. Best kept cool of course, but all good food and safety wise!
Served with
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
