Gluten Free Caesar Pasta Salad Meal Prep is a flavorful and easy combination of high protein pasta and your favorite summertime salad, Caesar Salad. Make this dish for your weekly meal prep, a fast weeknight dinner or your next BBQ.
Caesar Salad with Pasta is easy to make gluten free with a couple of swaps. In fact, you can really diversify the taste of this pasta salad based on the kind of plant-based pasta you select! For this recipe, we're using Chickapea pasta for a nutty, high-protein pasta.
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Basically, This recipe is loaded with fresh veggies such as tomatoes, red onion, and romaine lettuce. It comes together pretty fast, in about 15 to 20 minutes. It is packed full of protein (27g per 3ounce serving) and fiber from the Chickapea Pasta and is made in a single pot! Plus, Chickapea pasta contains only 2 ingredients; chickpeas and lentils, so you know that you aren't getting a whole bunch of artificial ingredients or sugars. That is something that we always feel good about! Plus, this pasta is vegan, gluten-free, organic, kosher and non-gmo. So, unless you are paleo or whole30, Chickapea pasta is a great addition to your diet! It's got a nutty taste in comparison to regular pasta.
For this recipe, we recommend buying your favorite Caesar dressing. It makes the process go a lot faster and there are several high-quality bottled dressings out there we like, such as the Caesar dressing from Primal Kitchen, made with avocado oil.
This is pretty easy stuff. Cook your pasta. While that's happening, cut the veggies, clean the lettuce, and gather your meal prep containers. When the pasta is done just toss the veggies, pasta, and cheese all together and then divide among your meal prep containers, reserving the dressing and croutons for later.
Tip: You can find gluten-free croutons at many grocery stores, or you can make them with stale gluten-free bread you've cubed up and pan-fried in some olive oil and seasonings. Your call!
Get ready to take this salad wherever you go, whether that's to a picnic, the beach, to the office for lunch, or you're going nowhere and eating it right now! Keep the dressing on the side.
Once it's prepped, this salad is ready to go. Keep it in the fridge for 3 to 4 days. Keep the dressing and croutons OFF the salad until you're ready to toss it, ideally. That'll prevent it from getting soggy. If you REALLY want to preserve all parts of this salad, keep the croutons off, too, and toss them in with the dressing right before you're ready to eat.
There's no such thing as a boring salad around here!
Add in cooked chicken, salmon, or shrimp to make this a slightly more filling meal and you don't want to double up on the pasta.
Add in some sliced cucumber.
Skip the cheese and use nutritional yeast instead if you are inclined. It gives a similar flavor but without the dairy.
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It's so simply but sounds so amazing - I'm getting hungry just looking at these!
Thanks, Sarah! It is beyond easy and so delicious!
I love that you've combined two of my favorite things ever ... pasta and Caesar salad! Also love that you used Chickapea. It's our fav!
Yay! We hope you try it! We may also be a little biased, but Chickapea is our favorite too!
What a great idea! I love the combo, I can’t wait to make this! Definitely going to become a weekly favourite.?
You will love it, Michelle! It's perfect for summer BBQ's too!
I love Caesar salad, and adding pasta is such a fab idea! Yummy lunches all week!
Thank you so much, Natasha! Let us know what you think!
Crushing on this healthy deliciousness. With the addition of Chickapea Pasta it's perfect for s dinner meal. Beautiful!
This looks divine! Love the idea of adding Chickapea pasta to my favorite salad!
Thanks, Tania! Chickapea pasta makes everything better!
Meal Prep is the secret to a healthy lifestyle!! I've always said it. Love this recipe!!
You know we agree with that 100%!
Love that you combined caesar salad (the best kind of salad) with pasta--YUM!
Thanks, Erin! It is the best of both worlds!
This is such a great meal prep idea for summer and Chickapea Pasta would make Caesar salad a million times better!
Thank you, Marcie! It is perfect for summer BBQ's!
I love this idea, Sarah! Caesar salad is one of my fave salads, but unless you add meat to it, it just isn't substantial. BUT THIS. This is a game changer.
Agreed! The Chickapea pasta provides quite a bit of protein! But, we also add in some grilled chicken and shrimp on occasion too!