Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, zesty pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

While the pasta is boiling/chilling you can prep the remaining ingredients. Toss it all in a big bowl and it's ready! I love pasta salads and all the ingriedients in this salad are things I like but I did not like it at all. This is doubly good because the pasta and veggies are marinated with Italian dressing, then drained and a mixture of mayonnaise and Parmesan.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have zesty pasta salad using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Zesty pasta salad:

1. Make ready 1 packet penne pasta
2. Take 1 cup cherry tomatoes (halved)
3. Take 1 bunch watercress
4. Make ready 1/4 cup spring onions (chopped)
5. Take 1/2 cup vintage cheddar (grated)
6. Get 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes
7. Make ready 1/2 cup parsley
8. Prepare 1 lime
9. Take 2 cloves garlic
10. Make ready 1 chilli
11. Take 1 tablespoon peppercorns
12. Get 1 teaspoon rock salt

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Instructions to make Zesty pasta salad:

1. Boil the pasta in salted water until soft, drain and set aside to cool.
2. In a bowl combine the cooled pasta with the halved cherry tomatoes, vintage cheddar and watercress (pulled apart or chopped). Stir thorughly.
3. In a food processor add your sun-dried tomatoes, the juice of one lime, one whole chilli, tablespoon of pepper, teaspoon of rock salt, coarsely chopped parsley and a dash of olive oil. Combine until it is of a smooth(almost creamy) consistency.
4. If you're having trouble blending the dressing, add a tablespoon of water to aid in combining the ingredients.
5. Once dressing is blended and to taste, pour over your pasta and stir through, ensuring all pasta is covered.
6. Garnish with fresh watercress leaves and two wedges of lime.

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