Camping Cuisine – Pasta Salad
This camping cuisine – pasta salad recipe was easy to make, tasted great, and paired nicely with a chicken teriyaki burger, potato salad, and fresh cherries. It was a delicious dinner that the kids and adults enjoyed, and it hit the spot after a long day of playing outside. The simple pasta salad recipe was light, fresh, easy to make, and delicious. Not bad for camp food!
Camping Cuisine – Pasta Salad
Ingredients:
- Fran’s Simple Vinaigrette (click here for the recipe)
- 8 oz Rotini (or pasta of choice), cooked per instructions
- A handful of cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- 1 large cucumber, seeded & diced
- ¼ yellow onion, diced
- 1 orange bell pepper, diced
- ¼ cup of feta cheese, crumbled
- ¼ cup of fresh basil, chopped
- Sea salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste
How to Make Pasta Salad:
Make the vinaigrette–click the link for the recipe.
Cook the pasta in a large pot of salted water according to the package instructions, then drain.
Drizzle some of the well-whisked vinaigrette over the warm, drained pasta and toss to coat.
Once the pasta has cooled completely, add the cherry tomato halves, cucumber, onion, bell pepper, feta cheese, and basil, then mix thoroughly.
Add more of the well-whisked vinaigrette to taste, season with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper, and toss to coat evenly.
Serve and enjoy.
Equipment
Ingredients
- Fran's Simple Vinaigrette click link for the recipe
- 8 oz Rotini or pasta of choice, cooked per instructions
- A handful of cherry tomatoes sliced in half
- 1 large cucumber seeded & diced
- ¼ yellow onion diced
- 1 orange bell pepper diced
- ¼ cup feta cheese crumbles
- ¼ cup fresh basil chopped
- Sea salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cook pasta in a large pot of salted water according to the package instructions, drain, and cool completely.
- Once the pasta has cooled completely, add the cherry tomato halves, cucumber, onion, bell pepper, feta cheese, and basil, then mix thoroughly.
- Toss with some of the well-whisked vinaigrette, to taste, until evenly coated, and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Serve and enjoy.
We headed to the mountains this past weekend and spent four wonderful (rain-free) days camping with our friends. I have gone camping my entire life and enjoy it immensely. I love everything about it–coming up with delicious camp food recipes, sleeping in my tent, watching my kids make s’mores, and sitting by the fire. I also love camp cooking! My wonderful in-laws gave us a “camp kitchen” for Christmas two years ago, and it is the GREATEST camping gadget–EVER (thank you, Bud & Fran). It gives me plenty of workspace plus a place to organize my food, spices, and dishes.
I’m very jealous of your camp kitchen. I used to do living history years ago and would have loved to have something like that to make the chore of feeding the masses much easier. The pasta salad looks lovely…I’ll have to give it a try. Any suggestions on a substitute for the feta? Everyone in my house calls it stinky sock cheese and refuses to eat it. Sad, because I love the stuff. Glad to hear
Mickie,
I love my camp kitchen…it makes camping so much more fun for the cook. Instead of feta try chunks of cheddar,jack or mozzarella.
Pam
Great kitchen. I don’t do a huge amount of camping any more, but always enjoyed cooking al fresco the to sit back and enjoy accompanied by a glass of delicious fruity red!
I love your camp kitchen. We love to camp but haven’t found much time this summer. This pasta salad sounds great.
Thanks for stoping by diningfortwo and leaving the kind words.
This pasta salad looks yummy! Pasta salad like this is one of my favorite foods. It is going on my “to do” list in the kitchen!
Pasta salad is perfect for camping! That looks like a tasty camp meal!
Wow! Look at that camp kitchen! What an awesome gift! And your camping meal is definitely way beyond typical beans and weenies round the campfire! That salad sounds so good, especially with the addition of feta. And, gosh, look at those cherries! Don’t let my hubby know you provide meals like this while camping!!!
I love your camp kitchen! We don’t camp, but if we did, I’d totally want one of those!
And you are reading my mind–first chicken and biscuits, now this salad–two of my all time faves!
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