I am looking for the reciepe for Ruby Tuesdays Basil Pasta Salad…Can anyone help???
Hi there,
My Father has fallen in love with this pasta salad as well. We had asked for the recipe, but unfortunately, they couldn’t give us quanities but just gave us the ingredients. So what I did was bought the ingredients then played around until I got the dish to taste like their salad. Dad says it tastes exactly like it so I hope you enjoy!!
Made Basil Pesto first:
3 cloves of garlic
4 large sprigs of fresh basil
½ to 1 cup of parmesan cheese
2 tbsp slivered pine nuts
Olive oil to make a paste
Combine all ingredients in a food processor till pesto like consistency
For the pasta:
4.25 oz can of chopped black olives (they were already pre chopped)
2 roasted red peppers (marinated in water only, not pickled in vinegar and not marinated in olive oil), chopped very fine
1 pkg of feta cheese
1/3 of a Vidalia onion, chopped very finely
7 leaves of fresh spinach chiffonade cut
Salt and pepper to taste
½ pound of spaghetti, broken into threes before cooking
For the dressing:
2 tbsp of the basil pesto
1 cup of vegetable oil
Whisk together the vegetable oil and the basil pesto together. Mix together all of the ingredients and pour the dressing over it. Let stand to meld the ingredients together.
He said it tasted just like it…Grant it, I am not one to use a lot of salt…so it could have probably stood to have more salt added to it (he just didn’t want to tell me) but I am on a low sodium diet. So just alter the salt to your liking.