Warm Pasta Salad with Roasted Vegetables and Pesto Vinaigrette

Name: Warm Pasta Salad with Roasted Vegetables and Pesto Vinaigrette
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 425 grams chickpeas (or 1 1/2 cups cooked), rinsed and drained; 1 medium eggplant (or 1/2 large), cut into 3/4 inch cubes; 473 milliliters fresh basil leaves, lightly packed; 1 head garlic; 227 grams grape tomatoes; 59 milliliters kalamata olives, pitted and sliced (optional); 227 grams mushrooms, quartered; 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast, optional; 1 medium red onion, coarsely chopped; 8 servings Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste; 454 grams spiral pasta (whole wheat or gluten-free); 2 Tbsps chopped walnuts, optional; 1 red or yellow bell pepper, sliced; 2 mediums zucchini, quartered lengthwise and cut into 3/4 inch pieces

Warm Pasta Salad with Roasted Vegetables and Pesto Vinaigrette is a dairy free main course. This recipe makes 8 servings with 374 calories, 16g of protein, and 5g of fat each. This recipe covers 23% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of chickpeas, zucchini, kalamatan olives, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. To use up the walnuts you could follow this main course with the Pistachio Cake with Walnuts as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour.

Instructions

Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Put the head of garlic in a corner of the baking sheet, and place in the oven. Stir after 15 minutes and add the bell pepper, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Cook until mushrooms have softened and tomatoes are beginning to collapse, about 10 more minutes.

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Bell Pepper

Mushrooms

Tomato

Garlic

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Remove from oven, reserve the head of garlic, and place the other vegetables in a very large serving bowl. (If your oven is small, see the Notes below.) While the vegetables are cooking, cook the pasta according to package directions.

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Vegetable

Garlic

Pasta

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Bowl

Oven

Place the basil in a food processor. Squeeze out 4-6 cloves of roasted garlic (or however many you like) and add it to the food processor, along with walnuts and nutritional yeast, if you’re using them. Pulse 6-8 times to chop the walnuts.

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Nutritional Yeast