Salmon Pasta Salad with Spinach, White Beans and Cucumbers
6 Apr
It warmed my heart to read that many of you wanted the recipe from last night’s dinner.
Without further ado, here it is. I ate a container of this for lunch today 
Salmon Pasta Salad with Spinach, White Beans and Cucumbers
Ingredients
- About 1 cup of Whole Wheat Bow Tie Pasta
- 1 can of salmon or tuna
- 1 cup of white beans
- 3 cups of spinach
- 1 cucumber
- 1 lime
- 2 tablespoons, capers
- 1 tablespoon, olive oil
- minced garlic (to taste – I use a ton)
- parsley (fresh or not)
- salt and pepper
Directions
- Prepare pasta according to ingredients on the box.
- While the pasta is cooking, sautee the olive oil, garlic, capers and the juice from 1/2 lime in a pan. After it’s slightly browned, add spinach.
- Once spinach is wilted, add white beans and stir over a low heat.
- Cut your cucumber. I left the peel on and cut it into fours for bite size appeal. This is entirely up to you.
- Remove spinach and white bean mixture from the stove once the beans look like they’ve soaked up some of the sauce. Give it time to cool, as this dish is better while cooled.
- Drain pasta and run under cold water.
- Combine spinach/bean mixture with pasta. Add salmon/tuna and cucumbers.
- Squeeze the other half of your lime on the mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste, along with parsley.
- Stir until coated. You may need to add additional olive oil depending on your taste.
Notes
- This dish tastes best when chilled overnight.
- If you are going to chill, be sure to let the spinach and beans cool down before refrigerating.
- You could remove and/or add vegetables to this dish as you like. For example, you could swap carrots for the cucumber.
- This dish takes about 20-25 minutes to prepare.
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Be sure to check out Meghann’s Blogging Bake Sale II today and bid on your favorite item! I have my eye on Heather’s Maple Nut Butter Cookies.
(Happy Birthday, Veggie Girl!)
Tags: capers, cucumbers, pasta, salmon, spinach, white beans
that look so good and easy! great summer salad.
Lovely pasta salad!!
THANK YOU FOR THE BDAY SHOUT-OUT!!
Thanks for the recipe – that sounds amazing!
Thanks for the recipe – looks so light & fresh.
And you’re brave putting your pick for the bake sale up – I’m so scared someone’s gonna outbid me! But I’ll just say that my pick is not your pick.
Salad loks lovely with the salmon..Healthy one.
There is a lot of goodness in that bowl. Thanks for posting the recipe!
Am I the only one who thinks bowtie pasta is fun? I’m always so amused by it!!
Oh yes!!! Totally want to try this now! I need to get some pasta!
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Yay…my comment posted! It must be some freaky quirk with my work computer that won’t let me post comments. As I said in my e-mail, great pics and great recipe!
thanks for posting the recipe! I’m totally going to make this soon
I’m so glad you posted it!
that bowl is packed with YUM… I love it Rose
Yep, that looks delicious. I must start buying canned salmon for recipes like this. So smart.
Yummy! I don’t like fish, but I would gladly make it without that part.
Making this today… wish me luck!