Easy Pasta Salad with Pomegranate, Pesto, Spinach, and Edamame Beans
Description
An easy recipe for the best healthy pasta salad with green pesto, edamame beans, and juicy, crispy pomegranate. We use whole-grain fusilli. A delicious and simple pasta salad recipe that’s filling and good for your health.
Ingredients
3.53 oz (100 g) whole-grain fusilli
1.59 oz (45 g) green pesto
3.53 oz (100 g) edamame beans
0.88 oz (25 g) fresh spinach
0.5 pomegranate
Directions
- Boil pasta after packaging instructions with a bit of salt.
- Drain pasta and let it cool off when it’s done cooking.
- Mix green pesto with pasta in your salad bowl.
- Clean spinach and chop it to rough pieces with your KUMA Chef’s Knife.
- Clean edamame beans. If they’re frozen, leave them in water to thaw.
- Peel pomegranate and remove all the seeds into your salad bowl.
- Add edamame beans and spinach into the salad bowl and stir to mix everything. If the salad seems too dry, you can add some more pesto or a few tablespoons of olive oil.
- Serve right away or put in the fridge until ready to serve.
Easy recipe for healthy pasta salad with green pesto and pomegranate
A super easy and delicious pasta salad recipe with green pesto, spinach, edamame beans, and pomegranate. This is one of our favorite pasta salads these days!
Healthy pasta for lunch or dinner
We make our pasta salad with whole-grain fusilli pastas to make it even better for your health, more filling, and the texture of the wholegrain pasta just fits the salad so lovely. This recipe is perfect as a side for quick dinner ideas or just a simple and healthy lunch. When we make it for lunch we like to add chicken pieces into the salad as well to make it a more complete meal on its own.
It is one of the best salads if you ask us and it is also quite different. This is thanks to the combination of vegetables, lettuce, pesto, and fruit. You may think it sounds odd with pomegranate in it but we highly recommend giving it a try. The adds a wonderful freshness to the salad which we just love!
A healthy and fresh pasta salad
As you know by now we just love the combination of whole-grain fusilli, pesto, and the fresh and juicy pomegranate. Pomegranate becomes this amazing counterpart to the green pesto. It really is one of our favorite healthy pasta salads as you get some much great flavor and it just looks gorgeous, too.
Can I replace the edamame beans?
Yes, you can replace the edamame beans with green beans, peas, or sugar snap peas. You can also use cucumber if you wish.
Can I use another kind of pesto?
Yup, you definitely can! Try a red pesto or a bell pepper pesto as your alternative. In general pesto is an amazing way to take your pasta salad to the next level as it adds so much flavor and texture.
Healthy meal prep
This pasta salad is a great candidate if you’re looking for healthy meal prepping ideas. You can easily scale up all the ingredients, mix everything in your salad bowl(s), and then divide it up into containers. Voila, you’ve got easy meals lined up for days, whether you want them to use them as a simple dinner side dish idea or as healthy lunchboxes - or both!
Follow us on social media.
Make sure to follow our Instagram and Facebook for more delicious food inspiration and tips. Remember the right tools can make or break your time in the kitchen and we at KUMA live to deliver you the sharpest cooking experiences available with our knives. We would love to have you join our thriving community who all loves Cooking With KUMA.
Let us know how your meals turned out - tag @kumaknives on Instagram!
