This summer vegetable pasta salad recipe is the easiest, warm weather-friendly dish you’ll make this year. It’s perfect for midday snacking, grilling at home, or taking to summer cookouts.

It’s summer. As in, officially summer. That means it’s time for mind-blowingly easy meals that we can eat on the patio like this summer vegetable pasta salad. With sweet corn, crispy zucchini, and juicy garden tomatoes. Also important to note: FETA. Lots of feta. This is basically a midwest-meets-Greek pasta salad and it’s checking all of our easy summer meal boxes.

I don’t care what anyone says, when it comes to summer food – pasta salad reigns supreme. It can be lunch after yard work. It can be a midday snack. It can be dinner all by itself with a glass of white wine. It can be the superstar side dish at any cookout. Pasta salad makes summer dreams come true – especially when it’s as easy as this one. I mean… can we talk about the ingredients list?

Ingredients for this Summer Vegetable Pasta Salad recipe:

• fun-shaped pasta noodles
• cherry tomatoes (extra cool points if you grew your own this year)
• sweet corn
• zucchini half moons (more bonus points if you grill your zucchini)
• arugula
• roasted chicken breasts
• feta
• salt & pepper

So there you have it. The easiest, most crowd-pleasing summer side dish you’ll make this year. With alllllll of the favorite characters. Pasta, salty feta, and fat, juicy ‘maters. Fair warning, you will most definitely catch me sneaking a bowl of this while I’m waiting on the burgers to finish up.

Summer Vegetable Pasta Salad

Jordan

This summer vegetable pasta salad recipe is the easiest, warm weather-friendly dish you'll make this year. It's perfect for midday snacking, grilling at home, or taking to summer cookouts.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

• 3 cups Pasta
• Water for boiling
• 1/4 cup Olive Oil, divided
• 1/2 lb. Chicken, shredded
• 1 cup Zucchini, chopped into half moons
• 1 cup Sweet Corn
• 1 cup Cherry Tomatoes, halved
• 1 1/2 cups Arugula
• 5 oz. Feta Cheese
• 2 tbps Basil, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup Lemon Juice
• 1/2 tsps Sea Salt
• 1 tsps Black Pepper

Instructions

 

• Cook pasta until al dente, drain, and allow to cool. 
• While the pasta is cooking, you can prepare the veggies. Combine the veggies, chicken, and feta in a large bowl and mix. Once its cooled, add the pasta and mix again.
• In a small bowl or mason jar, combine lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Pour the dressing over the pasta and veggies and mix to coat thoroughly.
• Serve and enjoy!

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Keyword bbq, grilling, salad, side dish, summer