Pastina Salad with Roasted Cauliflower, Rapini and Creamy Cashew Vinaigrette

Pastina Salad with Roasted Cauliflower, Rapini and Creamy Cashew Vinaigrette
Pastina Salad with Roasted Cauliflower, Rapini and Creamy Cashew Vinaigrette

This recipe comes from my dear friend Catalina. She always knows how to put together random things to make them taste fabulous. This Pastina Salad with Roasted Cauliflower, Rapini, and Creamy Cashew Vinaigrette isย no exception. And it only takes 30 minutes to prepare. The beauty of this pasta salad is that you can replace the ingredients with similar ones.ย Broccolini instead of rapini,ย orzo pasta instead of round pastina, and if you don’t have cauliflower, you can go withย squash or sweet potato.

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Pastina Salad with Roasted Cauliflower, Rapini and Creamy Cashew Vinaigrette

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: 4 side servings 1x

Ingredients

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For the Oven-Roasted Cauliflower:

  • 1/2 head cauliflower, cut in small florets
  • 2 cloves garlic, halved
  • Dashes of smoked paprika
  • 2 sprigs of fresh thyme and rosemary
  • Sea salt and pepper, to taste

For the Salad:

  • 1 head of rapini, trimmed
  • 1 cup round pastina
  • 1 shallot, minced
  • 5–10 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 avocado, sliced
  • 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted

For the Creamy Cashew Vinaigrette:

  • 1/2 cup raw cashews, soaked overnight
  • 1/2 small lemon, juiced
  • 10 large leaves of fresh basil
  • 5 leaves of fresh mint
  • 5–6 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon mayo or soft tofu (optional)
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • Sea salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

Preheat over to 400หš. Put the cauliflower florets and the garlic in a roasting pan. Sprinkle with olive oil, add the thyme, rosemary sprigs, and smoked paprika. Give it a quick stir and put it in the oven for 20 minutes, then stir and put back in the oven for another 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool 10 minutes.

Incorporate all the ingredients of the vinaigrette in a mini food processor or blender. Mix until the dressing has a nice creamy consistency.

Cook the pastina al dente according to package instructions. Steam the rapini for about 10 minutes until tender, then drain the excess water by pressing them into a clean kitchen towel. Cut them in small pieces. In a large bowl, add the rapini, pastina, shallots, cherry tomatoes, and roasted cauliflower. Dress the mix with the creamy cashew vinaigrette and add a little more olive oil into the mix. Plate, add the sliced avocado and some toasted pine nuts. Bon appรฉtit!

Keywords: pastina, cauliflower, rapini, cashew

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Salade de pastina avec chou-fleur rรดti, rapini et vinaigrette crรฉmeuse ร  la noix de cajou

  • Author: Karine K
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: 4 portions 1x

Ingredients

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Pour le chou-fleur rรดti:

  • 1/2 tรชte de chou-fleur, coupรฉe en fleurons
  • 2 gousses d’ail, coupรฉes en deux
  • Quelques pincรฉes de paprika fumรฉ
  • 2 branches de thym et de romarin
  • Sel de mer et poivre, au goรปt

Pour la salade:

  • 1 tรชte de rapini, parรฉe
  • 1 tasse de pastina
  • 1 รฉchalote franรงaise, รฉmincรฉe
  • 5 ร  10 tomates cerise, coupรฉes en deux
  • 1 avocat, tranchรฉ
  • 1/4 tasse de noix de pin, rรดties

Pour la vinaigrette crรฉmeuse ร  la noix de cajou:

  • 1/2 tasse de noix de cajou, trempรฉes toute une nuit
  • Le jus dun 1/2 petit citron
  • 10 grandes feuilles de basilic
  • 5 feuilles de menthe
  • 5 ร  6 c. ร  soupe d’huile d’olive
  • 1 c. ร  soupe de mayo ou de tofu soyeux (en option)
  • 1 c. ร  thรฉ de moutarde de Dijon
  • Sel de mer et poivre, au goรปt

Instructions

Prรฉchauffer le four ร  400หš. Dรฉposer le chou-fleur et l’ail sur une tรดle de cuisson prรฉalablement recouverte de papier parchemin. Arroser d’huile d’olive, ajouter le thym et le romarin, et le paprika fumรฉ. Remuer et mettre au four pendant 20 minutes. Retourner les fleurons et remettre au four pendant 10 minutes de plus. Retirer du four et laisser reposer pendant 10 minutes.

Placer tous les ingrรฉdients de la vinaigrette dans un mini robot culinaire ou mรฉlangeur. Mรฉlanger jusqu’ร  l’obtention d’une consistence crรฉmeuse.ย 

Cuire les pastina al dente, selon les directives sur l’emballage. Cuire le rapini ร  la vapeur, pendant environ 10 minutes, ou jusqu’ร  ce qu’il soit tendre. Retirer du feu et รฉponger l’excรฉdent d’eau avec un linge de cuisine propre. Hacher.

Dans un grand bol, combiner le rapini, les pastina, les รฉchalotes franรงaises, les tomates, et le chou-fleur rรดti. Ajouter la vinaigrette et un tait d’huile d’olive. Mรฉlanger dรฉlicatement. Servir garni des tranches d’avocats et des noix de pin rรดties. Bon appรฉtit!

Keywords: pastina, chou-fleur, rapini, cajou

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