If you’re looking to add one more dish to your Fourth of July spread then search no more! Pasta salad is the perfect addition to a summer gathering because it can easily be made in advance and will stay fresh for days. It is also fairly easy to find 100% whole-wheat pasta, which means this dish is “real food” approved. Rather than coming up with completely new recipes for pasta salad though I actually want to showcase two “older” 100 Days of Real Food recipes that can be reinvented by simply adding noodles.
Cucumber-Dill Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 8 oz whole-wheat pasta, dry (like macaroni, penne, or rigatoni)
- 1 ½ cups plain yogurt, (preferably the whole-milk variety, but any type will work)
- ½ large cucumber, grated with a cheese grater
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon dill, finely chopped (or 1 teaspoon of dried dill)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 3 carrots, peeled
Instructions
- Cook noodles according to package directions. Let them cool in fridge.
- Meanwhile prepare one recipe tzatziki sauce by simply mixing together all ingredients (yogurt through vinegar above). Add 1/8 teaspoon of salt to recipe.
- Chop, slice, or grate carrots.
- Mix together the pasta, sauce, and carrots. Garnish with carrot or dill.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition Facts
The Caprese Pasta Salad Recipe has been moved to its own blog post. Give it a try, too!
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Hi, I am just trying to clarify what this recipe is asking for. You list “1 recipe tzatziki sauce” with a hyperlink so I clicked and made the recipe that was linked. Then it looks like all the rest of the ingredients are the same that went into the tzatziki sauce recipe. I assumed these were not supposed to be added into the pasta again, right? It just seems a little redundant to list the “sauce” as an ingredient itself and then list all the ingredients that make up the sauce right below it. Maybe you can remove the ingredient “1 recipe tzatziki sauce” or if you want the link to be there then leave that and remove all the other ingredients. Do you see what I mean? Otherwise I am second guessing myself on whether the ingredients are actually doubled in this recipe.
You know what I think the ingredients for the tzatziki were originally indented underneath to show as being part of the tzatziki sauce bullet, but the formatting must have been lost when we transitioned to this printable recipe plugin. Thanks so much for pointing that out! It has been fixed :)
Hi Angela. Look for pastas/noodles that are 100% whole grain. ~Amy
What kind of store bought noodles fall under eating whole foods?
The caprese salad is on the table…I have been picking at it until everyone is at the table and assembled and it is DELICIOUS! So good! Great summer recipe!