Refreshing Summer Luncheon Salad
via Spinach Tomato Cottage Cheese
Loving simple seasonal salads!
I adore a great simple seasonal salad that I can whip up from the fridge, don’t you? This Spinach Tomato Cottage Cheese Pasta Salad is just what I am talking about! It’s prepared with fresh spinach and tangy cherry tomatoes. The cottage cheese substitutes for dressing and the prepared pasta adds a warm element without adding meat!
I was inspired to create this seasonal salad by the P&Geveryday website which features seasonal salad lunch suggestions. I found the P&Geveryday recipe section so valuable, as it highlights food that is in season at that time period followed by salad recipe creations. For example, summer is listed and these ingredients that are in season are suggested: summer squash, zucchini, cucumber, melon, tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, corn, peppers, eggplant, peaches, plums, apricots and then a recipe is provided for raw zucchini salad. Check out this wonderful Harvest salad they have for fall containing baby kale, grapes, pomegranate seeds, apple, pumpkin seeds, feta cheese, your favorite dressing or extra virgin olive oil and apple cider vinegar! MMMM!
As we are basically starting summer in Michigan, my seasonal inspired salad includes several items from spring and summer and then I coupled it with items I had in my fridge.
- Fresh spinach (enough to cover bottom of each plate)
- ½ to ¾ of cup cottage cheese as desired
- 4 oz of stuffed hot/warm agnolotti or ravioli (cooked)
- 12-15 cherry tomatoes
- Parmesan cheese
- Spread fresh spinach over bottom of plate to form a bed
- Mound cottage cheese in center of lettuce bed
- Arrange cooked agnolotti or ravioli in a circular pattern around center mound of cottage cheese
- Place cherry tomato around arrangement in a pleasing manner with one in middle of cottage cheese mound.
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sounds great nice salad
It’s too darn hot this week to cook. Salads are the answer.
I’d love to try this. It looks simple and delicious.
Looking good love to try this
This Salad is a Big Favorite of mine. I tried it and I loved it. Thank you for sharing such Yummy Foods. :O)~~~~~Spinach Tomato Cottage Cheese Pasta Salad
Those are great summer salads. Thanks for the recipe.
That looks delicious, I never would have thought to pair with cottage cheese but I bet it is a nice creamy addition.
My husband loves cold salads during the summer, I will be adding this to our list of summer recipes for sure! Thank You
A great spring/summer salad, and it looks pretty too. I went to the website, and they do have lots of recipes and good articles. Today is Ravioli Day, and the ravioli in this caught my eye. I hadn’t thought about ravioli in a salad.
Wow! This looks like a really good salad. Thanks for the recipe!
I great summer salad, indeed. In LA, though, this will be perfect for any day except maybe for pouring rain, which we’re getting (thankfully) a lot of this winter! Can’t wait to try it.
There is a lot of different items in this. I bet it is very flavorful. I don’t really think about cottage cheese in a pasta salad, but with the tomato and spinach, I bet it goes well.
Your spinach,tomato,cottage cheese Pasta salad sound delicious! It also looks lovely on the plate! I am really searching for salads now I have several on my pinterest Board now including this one! I really want to start incorporating them more in my daily menu!
Thankyou for sharing your awesome salad with us!
I was shocked Cathy! I made this with stuff from the refrigerator. The warm pasta with the cold cottage cheese and spinach. MMMM. Shelley
Yum! Healthy and delicious!
I haven’t had cottage cheese in years! This looks so good, I must try it! Sometimes I make my own ravioli, this would be a great way to serve it!
This is so up my alley, I love cooking with spinach and fresh vegetables, I don’t
think I have tried this cheese pasta before but definitely planning on try this.
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Mmmm!! This has so many of my favorite elements!! Spinach, cottage cheese!! Sold!! I would probably add some prosciutto 😉
This sounds great and thank you for sharing this recipe with us.
This looks really interesting and I will have to use some of the fresh ingredients from my garden and make some of this!
Looks delicious! I love trying new salad recipes!