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Pasta salad with currants, olives and pine nuts

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Categories: Appetizers, Condiments, Nuts, Olives, Pastas & Noodles, Salads, Vegetarian
Yield: 8
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Ingredients:
1 lbsPenne pasta
1 eachGarlic clove, quartered
1 tspSalt
1 cupPacked stemmed fresh parsley
1/4 cupFresh lemon juice
1/4 cupRed wine vinegar
1 tspCurry powder
1 tspSugar
3/4 tspGround cumin
1/2 tspPepper
1 cupOlive oil
1 eachRed onion
-- peeled, finely chopped
1 cupSliced Kalamata olives
-- (pitted)
2/3 cupDried currants
2/3 cupToasted pine nuts
Fresh parsley sprigs
Cherry tomatoes
Procedures:
1Cook pasta in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally.
2Drain.
3Rinse under cold water; drain well.
4Transfer pasta to large bowl.
5Meanwhile, blend garlic and salt to paste in processor, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally.
6Add 1 cup parsley and mince.
7Blend in lemon juice, vinegar, curry, sugar, cumin and pepper.
8With machine running, gradually add oil through feed tube in thin steady stream.
9Pour dressing over pasta.
10Add onion, olives, currants and pine nuts to pasta and toss.
11Season with pepper.
12Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
13(can be made 1 day ahead).
14Garnish salad with parsley sprigs and cherry tomatoes and serve.
15Edena sheldon in "bon appetit" august, 1991
 
 
 
 

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