This cold pasta salad is a great meal to prep on the weekend and have as a lunch throughout the week. Meal prepping for an hour or two at the beginning of the week can save you a lot of time and money.
For this recipe, you can use whole wheat pasta or a gluten free pasta such as brown rice or quinoa. Another pasta I like to use is high protein, high fibre bean pasta from Eat Banza or Explore Cuisine. Depending on your preference and carbohydrate needs, if you use bean pasta, you can skip adding the chickpeas as this can be a lot of fibre for one meal.
Mediterranean Hummus Pasta
A cold pasta salad perfect for meal prepped lunches.
Ingredients
- 340 g box of pasta whole grain, brown rice or bean or your choice
- 1 can chickpeas drained and rinsed
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes
- 1/4 cup parsley chopped
- 1 cup spinach chopped
- 1/4 red onion diced
- 1/2 red pepper chopped
- 1/2 cup feta cheese crumbled
- 2/3 cup hummus any flavour
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp Italian seasoning
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
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1. Cook pasta according to the instructions.
2. Stir in chickpeas, tomatoes, parsley, spinach, onion, feta cheese. Add hummus, lemon juice, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper and mix well to combine.