9.3.09

Cold Pasta Salad



Pasta Cold Salad:

Late in the afternoon, is the bad time...for most dieters and weight watchers! We indulge in any kind of snack that is presented! When glucose levels drop...not everyone could make a healthy choice! What if we already packed a snack for our high tea time!:) Doesn't that sound kool!

My friend Tina, once prepared this cold salad for me! And I really liked it! She said...tossed all the veggies and dressed them up with mayonnaise!

Ingredients:

Pasta(multi grain/omega 3 fortified)1 cup
Jalapenos 1 medium (deseed & slice)
Olives green 4 sliced
Olives black 4 sliced
Purple onion chopped 6 spoons
Roma tomato 1 chopped
Zucchini 1/2 chopped
Vinegar 2-4 cap full
Mayonnaise 4-6 spoons
Ragu sauce 4-6 spoons
Olive oil 2-4 spoons.

Method:

Cook pasta, as per the directions, drain the water and set aside.

In a wide salad bowl, bring all the ingredients vegetables and add vinegar to it. Let this sit for some time.

Then mix pasta to it. Further ass the mayonnaise and ragu sauce, mix well. Refrigerate them for about 4-6 hours. As they sit for couple of hours...vinegar works on the vegetables and pasta...make them delectable!

Serve cold as a salad. It could be a filling meal in between your meal time!

21 comments:

Ann said...

Malar,this is my hot fav...what a splendid click dear !!

Dershana said...

That's a nice, flavoursome repast, Malar. I agree early evenings are times when palate temptations are greatest!

Chitra said...

nice recipe.colorful one:)

Lavanya said...

nice salad malar!!

Divz said...

pasta salad is one of my fav salads...slrup!!

Lakshmi Venkatesh said...

Pasta with all those veggies and mayonnaise looks yummy.

Akal's Saappadu said...

cold pasta salad is something the frenchies do very often too;
looks colorful and yummy;

hum hum, the 4 to 6 tbsp of mayonnaise is not going to arrange things for dieters, right?

Shama Nagarajan said...

delicious salad dear

Shama Nagarajan said...

delicious salad dear

Kitchen Flavours said...

Comforting, healthy and yum.

Asha said...

LOVE this salad, make it often on hot Summer days! :)

Ushanandini said...

Lovely pasta! This will be my salvation for snack time from my kids! And you have a good friend too because she makes snacks for ya! Lucky!

Vicky Xavier. said...

Notable recipe for tea time:) we had it for dinner last night. comfortable food . Urs look so colorful and delicious dear.

Trupti said...

What a colorful pasta malar..looks very delicious

Ashwini said...

Yummy and colorful salad..Lovely summer treat..

AnuSriram said...

Looks delicious and very colourful! Yummy! Fav summer food!

Madhumathi said...

Nice pasta salad recipe,Malar.I will try it for sure.By the way whats ragu sauce ?

Yasmeen said...

Great idea for healthy snacking between the meals,thanks to you and Tina:)

Uma said...

Nice, yummy salad.

Sonal said...

Nice one!

Divya Vikram said...

I agree with the snack cravings during the late noon. Love pasta salad. looks delectable.