Name: Green Pasta Salad with Pistachio Pesto
Yield: A Creamy Side Salad for 4
Ingredients: 1 tsp sumac (optional); 1 fat courgette (zucchini), cut into matchsticks; 2½ tbsp balsamic vinegar; 100 ml/3½ fl oz. scant ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 bunch of spring onions (scallion(s)), chopped; big handful of fresh parsley and (cilantro) sliced; 100 g/3½ oz/⅔ cup pistachio kernels; 3–4 garlic cloves, peeled; handful of fresh basil; 150 g/5½ oz. scant 1 cup pitted green olives, sliced

Preparation info

A Creamy Side Salad for
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

This is a simple salad, but it is very moreish – and such a pretty shade of green. I usually use kritheraki or orzo pasta for this (the one that looks just like rice), but you can use any pasta that takes your fancy. One’s carnivorous husband likes this with added chopped mortadella, but frankly I think the meat is quite unnecessary.