Fettuccine and Feta Salad

Name: Fettuccine and Feta Salad
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 12 ounces fettuccine pasta; 1/4 lb feta cheese, crumbled; 1/4 lb fresh snow pea (or frozen, thawed); 1/4 lb black Greek olive; 1 sweet red peppers or 1 yellow pepper, cut in strips; 0.5 (12 ounce) box cherry tomatoes, cut in half if large; 1/2 cup chopped walnuts; 2/3 cup olive oil; 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar; salt and pepper; 1 teaspoon oregano; 1/2 teaspoon dried mint, crushed

Submitted by Dona England

"Wonderful Greek style salad, it gets better the next day. From "The Pasta Salad Book" by Nina Graybill and Maxine Rapaport."

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Ready In:: 15mins
Ingredients:: 12
Serves:: 4

ingredients

12 ounces fettuccine pasta
¹⁄₄ lb feta cheese, crumbled
¹⁄₄ lb fresh snow pea (or frozen, thawed)
¹⁄₄ lb black Greek olive
1 sweet red peppers or 1 yellow pepper, cut in strips
0.5 (12 ounce) box cherry tomatoes, cut in half if large
¹⁄₂ cup chopped walnuts
Dressing
²⁄₃ cup olive oil
4 tablespoons red wine vinegar
salt and pepper
1 teaspoon oregano
¹⁄₂ teaspoon dried mint, crushed

directions

Cook fettuccine to al dente stage, drain well.
Combine with cheese, vegetables and walnuts Shake olive oil, vinegar, oregano, mint, salt and pepper in a small jar until well combined.
Pour a quarter cup of the dressing at a time over the salad, mixing well after each addition.
You may not need the entire amount.
Adjust seasoning.
Serve at room temperature.

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Reviews

I agree with evelyn, this is WAY too easy to eat. I used whole wheat pasta, julienned the snow peas and subbed basil for the mint. Not as unusual a flavor but I'm not a mint fan. I found half the dressing to be enough but I prefer my pasta a bit dry.

sugarpea
This was lunch today as I had all the ingredients on hand. The only things I did differently was to use the corkscrew-shaped pasta (which worked out beautifully as bits of feta, olive and walnut got trapped in the curls and 1/2 cup of olive oil (using up all the dressing). BTW, the 'mint' called for in greek cookery is spearmint, and as this recipe is very greek in spirit, that's what I used. An unusual, very fresh-tasting and delicious pasta salad that comes together very, very quickly and is too easy to eat.:-)

evelynathens

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I agree with evelyn, this is WAY too easy to eat. I used whole wheat pasta, julienned the snow peas and subbed basil for the mint. Not as unusual a flavor but I'm not a mint fan. I found half the dressing to be enough but I prefer my pasta a bit dry.

sugarpea

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Dona England

Fort Worth, VT

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