Apple Salad With Pasta
This apple salad with pasta recipe is a delicious dinner salad with spinach, apples, mandarin oranges, pasta, and a simple yogurt sauce. Yum!
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 12
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings 1x
- Category: Plant based
- Method: Healthy
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
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- 2 cups of pasta (penne, fusilli, farfalle—any kind will do!)
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 16oz pack of extra firm tofu
- 1–1/2 cups of plain yogurt (cashew yogurt for a dairy-free option)
- 1 teaspoon honey (warmed if needed for mixing)
- 1 teaspoon Spike Seasoning
- 1 15oz can of mandarin oranges (unsweetened)
- 4 cups of fresh spinach, washed
- 2 granny smith apples, cut into slices
- Fresh broccoli sprouts
Instructions
- Cook the pasta per the manufacturers instructions.
- While the pasta is cooking, drain the tofu and press with a towel. Cut the tofu in 1-inch size cubes.
- Mix the dijon mustard and olive oil in a medium size mixing bowl. Add the tofu cubes to the mixing bowl. Coat the tofu cubes with the mustard sauce.
- Cook the tofu cubes in an air fryer for about 12 minutes at 400 degrees. Until crispy and golden.
- Make the yogurt sauce—combine the yogurt, 1 cup of juice from the can of mandarin oranges, 1 teaspoon of honey, and 1 teaspoon of Spike seasoning. Mix together using a whisk.
- Assemble the salad. Add about 1 cup of spinach to a large dinner plate. Add 1/4 of the tofu, pasta, granny smith apples, mandarin oranges and broccoli sprouts.
- Drizzle with the yogurt sauce. Yum!
Notes
Feta cheese and almond slices are also great on this salad.
Find it online: https://www.bowlofyum.com/2025/04/apple-salad-with-pasta/