Blue cheeseburger pasta salad
This blue cheeseburger pasta salad deliver comfort and bold flavours, guaranteed to become a favourite for cookouts, potlucks and family dinners. A combination of rich blue cheese, savoury beef, crisp vegetables and tender pasta, captures everything I love about a burger, but transformed into a cold, picnic friendly dish.
Servings: 6 portions
Ingredients
Pasta salad base
- 350 g uncooked pasta
- 1 cucumber
- 1 shallot or two small
- 2 bell peppers
- 250 g Tomatoes plum and cherry
- 200 g fresh spinach or other green leaves
Blue cheese hamburger patties
- 250 g minced meat
- 90 g blue cheese
- 1 egg
- ½ onion
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
Blue cheese dressing
- 150 g blue cheese
- 200 ml Greek yogurt
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- A pinch of salt
Instructions
Pasta salad base
- Cook 350 g uncooked pasta according to instructions on package.
- Drain the pasta in a colander. Then rinse in cold water which will help speed up the process of mixing the salad. See notes below.
- Slice and quarter 1 cucumber
- Peel and dice 1 shallot or two small
- Chop 2 bell peppers
- Cut 250 g Tomatoes in half.
- Rinse and drain 200 g fresh spinach
- Mix all vegetables with the pasta and set aside.
Blue cheese hamburger patties
- Take out 250 g minced meat and let it come to room temperature.
- Chop 1/2 onion
- Mix the minced meat with the chopped onion and 1 egg
- Slice 90 g blue cheese in five equal pieces.
- Form five hamburger patties of 100g each.
- Put one pieces of blue cheese on each hamburger patty and cover with mince meat.
- Add 1 tbsp cooking oil to a hot pan and cook your hamburger patties for about five minutes on each side, press down with your spatula to make them flatter.
- If you are unsure if they are cooked all the way through, put the patties in a hot oven for a few minutes.
- Leave to cool before adding to the salad. See tips below.
- Once cooled cut the blue cheese hamburgers and add to your pasta salad.
Blue cheese dressing
- Crumble 150 g blue cheese in a bowl.
- Add 200 ml Greek yogurt, 2 tbsp mayonnaise and A pinch of salt
- Mix thoroughly. Chill until need it.
- Mix the dressing with the completed pasta salad
Notes
Tips: Cook the pasta the day before and keep in an airtight container in the fridge overnight.
Tips: Make the hamburgers up to a day ahead of time, and keep in the fridge to make sure they are properly cooled before adding them to the salad.