Pasta salad with asparagus and tarragon and mustard cream

Pasta salad with asparagus, radishes, spring onions, and a tarragon mustard cream, served cold or slightly warm.

• 4 port pasta (preferably gemelli)
• 1 pack of green asparagus (each 250 g)
• 1 pot of French tarragon
• 1 tbsp dijon mustard
• 2 dl crème fraiche
• Salt
• Pepper
• 220 g radishes
• 1/2 cucumber
• 4 green onions
• 65 g red chard
• 1/2 dl topping for salad (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and pine nuts)

Method

1. 1
   Cook the pasta according to the instructions on the package.
2. 2
   Trim and cut the asparagus into pieces.
3. 3
   Let the asparagus cook together with the pasta, the last 3 minutes of the pasta's cooking time.
4. 4
   Chop the tarragon and mix it with mustard and crème fraiche.
5. 5
   Season to taste with salt and pepper.
6. 6
   Trim and cut the radishes into thin slices.
7. 7
   Dice the cucumber and trim and slice the onion.
8. 8
   Mix the pasta and asparagus with the tarragon cream, radishes, cucumber and green onions.
9. 9
   Serve the pasta salad with chard and salad topping.