Recipe: Yummy Healthy Pasta Salad

Healthy Pasta Salad. For a guaranteed people-pleaser at your next event, try this Italian pasta salad. Served cold or hot, this crowd-pleasing dish is versatile and easy to transport. This pasta salad holds well in the refrigerator or a cooler and tastes even better as the pasta absorbs the tomato-infused vinaigrette.

This pleasing pasta salad is like eating a BLT in a bowl. Filled with crispy bacon, chopped tomato, celery and green onion, the sensational salad is coated with a tangy mayonnaise and vinegar dressing. It's a real crowd-pleaser! —Norene Wright, Manilla, Indiana Get the best ideas for top pasta salad recipes with fresh vegetables for summer parties, potlucks and barbecues from Food Network. You can cook Healthy Pasta Salad using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Healthy Pasta Salad

1. Prepare 150 grams of pasta shapes.
2. Prepare 4 small of tomatoes (I used baby plum tomatoes).
3. It's 1/4 of red pepper.
4. Prepare 1/4 of orange pepper.
5. Prepare 1 small of carrot peeled.
6. It's 1 of handful of cheese.
7. Prepare 2 of inches of cucumber.
8. Prepare 1 of spring onion.
9. Prepare 3 tbsp of mayonnaise.
10. It's 1 pinch of of salt and pepper.
11. Prepare 1 small of clove of garlic (optional).
12. You need 1 small of knob of butter.

The amount of dry pasta to start with depends on the shape. Or you can make any one of these salads into a meal for an easy entrée. It's not only easy to prepare, but it requires only minimal ingredients and tastes so fresh and delicious. The recipe makes a ton so it's also great for serving a crowd!

Healthy Pasta Salad instructions

1. cook pasta according to instructions.
2. while pasta is cooking chop tomatoes, pepper, cucumber and spring onion into small pieces.
3. grate the carrot and cheese.
4. finely crushed the garlic.
5. as soon as the pasta is cooked, drain and add the garlic and butter. put back on a low heat and stir until the butter is melted. remove from heat and add the carrot, cheese, tomatoes and pepper. stir until combined.
6. leave to cool slightly then add the cucumber.
7. for my daughter I added one tbsp of mayonnaise, stirred and served hers. then I added the rest of the mayo, spring onion, salt and pepper for me.
8. you can change the mayonnaise for salad cream or other salad dressings. bit more healthy remove the cheese. goes well with cooked chicken or fish. for salad tacos I lined my bowl with lettuce leaves and used them as taco shells.

Ingredients in Healthy Pasta Salad. gluten-free pasta noodles; tomatoes; cucumbers; red onion; balsamic vinegar; basil. While pasta cooks, whisk garlic, oil, vinegar, mustard, Italian Seasoning, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Drain pasta, and immediately add it to the dressing. The veggies match the colors in the tri-colored pasta. And the dressing is real zesty and spicy.