Pasta Salad with Currants, Olives and Pine Nuts
- 1 pound pasta, penne
- 1 each garlic cloves quartered
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup parsley leaves stemmed
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon cumin ground
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1 each red onion peeled, finely chopped
- 1 cup kalamata olives sliced
- 23 cup currants dried
- 23 cup pine nuts toasted
- Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally.
- Drain.
- Rinse under cold water; drain well.
- Transfer pasta to large bowl.
- Meanwhile, blend garlic and salt to paste in processor, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally.
- Add 1 cup parsley and mince.
- Blend in lemon juice, vinegar, curry, sugar, cumin and pepper.
- With machine running, gradually add oil through feed tube in thin steady stream.
- Pour dressing over pasta.
- Add onion, olives, currants and pine nuts to pasta and toss.
- Season with pepper.
- Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
pasta, garlic, salt, parsley, lemon juice, red wine vinegar, curry powder, sugar, cumin ground, black pepper, olive oil, red onion, olives, currants dried, nuts
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/pasta-salad-currants-olives-pin-40408 (may not work)