Delicious vegan pasta salad

Grilled vegetable pasta salad with vegan vinaigrette

Fantastic vegan summer pasta salad to take to a party and share with a friend. Grilled vegetables and pasta come together in an easy, homemade vegan Italian dressing. Tastes even better when it’s sat in the fridge for a day.

When the weather starts getting a little hotter, there’s nothing like a delicious grilled veggie pasta salad for dinner. It’s a great way to use up all those veggies that your garden is growing.

This is one of my favorite dishes to make on a hot, muggy summer night. It whips together so easily and won’t make you feel heavy and gross.

This pasta salad is also great to take to a party or bbq. It feeds a crowd really well.

Cooking tips

• I love using the spiral or bow tie pasta for this but use whatever is your favorite
• Make sure not to over cook the pasta.
• Once pasta is cooked, rinse immediately with cool water so that the pasta doesn’t continue to cook and become gummy
• If you want an even easier way to make this, use a store bought Italian dressing instead of making it yourself. Just check the ingredients that it doesn’t have cheese in it.
• If you can get your hands on some Violife vegan parmesan, or feta, do so! It tastes so good in this pasta salad
• Choose whatever veggies are you favorite to grill. I used bell peppers, zucchini and onions, but the sky’s the limit.
• Season your grilled veggies with some steak seasoning, or just good ol’ plain salt. Whatever you do, don’t leave them bland and unseasoned. Also make sure to brush them with a little olive oil
• If you don’t feel like grilling the vegetables, it works to sauté them as well. They taste amazing if you use a cast iron skillet.
• Top this with some fresh basil if you have it. It tastes amazing.
• This grilled veggie pasta salad tastes even better when it’s had a chance to sit in the fridge for a day. Make this the day before a party or bbq to really let the flavors sink in.

How long will this pasta salad last?

This will last about a week in the fridge, if you don’t eat it all before then

Check out these other summertime vegan recipes next:

• Creamy orzo with roasted vegetables
• Kale salad with baked sweet potato and marinated tofu
• Applebee’s vegan chicken oriental salad copycat recipe
• Southwest quinoa salad
• Tomato, cucumber avocado salad
• Easy BBQ tofu

Easy vegan pasta salad

Easy, healthy and delicious grilled vegetable pasta salad. Fantastic vegan summer salad to take to a party and share with a friend. Grilled vegetables and pasta come together in an easy, homemade vegan Italian dressing. Tastes even better when it’s sat in the fridge for a day.

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Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: Mediterranean

Keyword: grilled vegetables, pasta salad, quick, side dish, summer salad, vegan

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 11 minutes

Total Time: 26 minutes

Servings: 8

Calories: 406kcal

Author: Maria

Ingredients

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Italian dressing

• ½ cup olive oil
• ¼ cup white wine vinegar (can also use red wine vinegar)
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp dijon mustard
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 clove garlic (pressed or minced)
• 2 tsp Italian seasoning
• 1 tsp Mrs. Dash seasoning
• 1.5 tsp salt (or salt to taste)
• ¼ cup finely grated Violife vegan parmesan (optional but it tastes really good if you can find this)
• ½ tsp pepper

Pasta salad

• 1 lb bag of pasta – cooked al dente
• 2 small zucchinis
• 1-2 bell peppers
• ½ red onion
• ¼ cup kalamata olives
• ½ cup jarred artichoke hearts
• Handful of cherry tomatoes
• Handful of baby arugula (optional)
• 16 oz can of cannellini or great northern beans – drained and rinsed
• Violife vegan feta cheese (optional but tastes really good in this)
• Top with fresh basil and grated vegan parmesan cheese at the end

Instructions

• Grill or sauté the zucchini, peppers and onions. Tastes really good to season with salt or a steak seasoning. Brush with a little olive oil if grilling.
• Cook your pasta, drain and rinse with cool water
• Chop up your olives, artichoke hearts and tomatoes.
• Drain and rinse your white beans
• Add all of your pasta salad ingredients together in a bowl
• Mix together the dressing ingredients in a jar. Shake well, and pour over the pasta salad
• Top with some fresh basil and vegan parmesan cheese

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Nutrition

Calories: 406kcalCarbohydrates: 35gProtein: 11gFat: 17gSaturated Fat: 2gSodium: 1535mgPotassium: 276mgFiber: 6gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 1112IUVitamin C: 29mgCalcium: 81mgIron: 3mg

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Grilled vegetable pasta salad