Spring Pasta Salad
Updated April 27, 2023
Quick Summary
Spring Pasta Salad-this healthy pasta salad has all of your favorite spring vegetables-asparagus, peas, artichokes, and spinach! It is great as a main dish or side dish!
One of my favorite spring meals is this Spring Pasta Salad. It is easy to make, pretty to serve, and good for you too! It is made with pasta, lots of fresh spring vegetables, feta cheese, basil, and finished with olive oil and fresh lemon juice.
It is the perfect dish for an easy lunch, dinner, or take it to a potluck or picnic to share with friends and family!
To make the salad, I use Farfalle pasta. The butterfly pasta is perfect for spring, but any shape will work! Penne, orecchiette, and fusilli are all good options.
I add all of my favorite spring vegetables to this pasta salad: asparaugs, peas, artichokes, and spinach. I love all of the green!
The dressing on this pasta salad is super simple and light. I drizzle the salad with olive oil and fresh lemon juice. I top the salad with fresh basil and feta cheese and that’s it! This salad doesn’t need much. It is tasty as is!
You can enjoy this Spring Pasta Salad as a main dish or side dish. It is perfect for potlucks, picnics, or parties! I like to make it for dinner and enjoy leftovers for lunch. Cook once, eat twice, works for me!
Get your spring on and make this fresh and healthy Spring Pasta Salad!
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Spring Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 1 pound Farfalle Pasta
- 1 pound fresh asparagus, cut into 1-inch pieces, ends trimmed and discarded
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cups baby spinach, roughly chopped
- 1 1/2 cups peas, we use frozen
- 14 oz artichoke hearts, drained and roughly chopped
- Juice of 1 large lemon
- 2/3 cup crumbled feta cheese
- 1/4 cup chopped basil
- Salt and freshly-cracked black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook pasta to al dente texture, according to package instructions. Three minutes before the pasta is done cooking, carefully add in the asparagus pieces. When the pasta is done cooking, drain the pasta and asparagus. Rinse cold water over the pasta and asparagus.
- Pour the pasta and asparagus into a large bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and stir. Add the spinach, peas, artichoke hearts, lemon juice, feta cheese, and basil. Toss until combined and season with salt and black pepper. Serve!
- Note-the pasta salad will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. If storing it in the fridge, freshen it up with an extra drizzle of olive oil and squeeze of lemon juice before serving.
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This is definitely a perfect spring salad! Man–I’m sorry you had to deal with a spring snowstorm. That would bum me out.
Seriously loving the spring colors in this dish and any pasta with feta is a winner in my book!
Loving how healthy this is and how its made with whole wheat farfalle!
I can’t believe you’ve recently had a snow storm! Makes me feel guilty for whining about the cool 68 degrees I’ll be facing today. But I love that Spring is in the air (although my allergies don’t), and I love this fresh and light vegetable pasta salad! All of my favorite veggies combines with bowties and feta cheese. Yum! Great recipe!
this looks so cheerful and fresh! A perfect Spring dish!
That’s one nice spring pasta salad!
That happened to us, too! It snowed for a hot second this morning and I got so sad. I think I need this spring salad in my life to cheer me up. Pinned!
A beautiful bowl of spring indeed! Love the asparagus in this!
This definitely looks like spring in a bowl!!
Wow! This is such a fresh and flavorful dish!
Thank you for the lovely salad recipe. Sounds good.
Will totally be making this for all of our spring picnics!
Healthy, delicious and full of so many of my favorite ingredients! A must try spring salad!
This looks so fresh! I love pasta with peas!
I love pasta, all pasta really. I especially love when it is healthy. Can’t wait to try this!
Lovely pasta salad. Maybe if I make it, spring will come back around here? It’s been chilly and blustery this week, with snow flurries. 🙁
This is an awesome recipe!!! Love this!
Gonna try this one tonight.
This pasta salad is going to happen soon! Delicious!!!
This is such a springy, light salad. I love the asparagus and artichokes. Great combination!
My husband and I were planning to have this beautiful pasta salad for dinner tonight, and then it really started snowing late this afternoon. We used your recipe, with half the pasta and made it into a hot entree. Crazy Good! Thank you for inspiring our cozy, comforting and tasty dinner.
You are welcome! Glad you liked it!
This sounds really delicious and something new to try. Thank you for sharing this.
Simon
Yum! I just made this for game night with my husband and another couple. Usually, I end up spending the first hour they’re here “finishing up” supper, but this was ready to go before they even got here.
I did substitute green beans for the asparagus, since that’s what we had on hand. I added about a tablespoon of fresh chives as well.
It’s delicious. I’m surprised how well just a little olive oil and lemon juice worked out as a dressing.