Recipe Overview
- Recipe typeSalads
- Difficulty levelEasy
- CoursesDinner
- IngredientsPastaVegetables
Recipe Description
On hot summer days, pasta salad can be the perfect dish for a light and healthy evening meal. It is a healthy recipe with lots of vegetables, nutritious, and very tasty. This pasta salad recipe is very easy to prepare. Here’s what you have to do.
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Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups pasta (any kind of pasta)
- 2 cups broccoli
- 1 cup cauliflower
- 1 tomato
- 1 avocado
- 1 cup fresh mushrooms
- 3/4 cup black olives
- 1/2 cup onion
- 1 cup dressing for Italian salad
Steps
- Cook the pasta according to the package directions. After boiling, drain the pasta and rinse well with cold water.
- Boil broccoli, cauliflower, and even mushrooms for a few minutes.
- Choose a large bowl in which to put the cooked pasta, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, and onions. Mix everything well.
- Add the Italian salad dressing, then keep the pasta salad in the fridge until ready to serve.
- If you do not have a salad dressing you can use olive oil, lemon juice, a little mustard, salt, and a drop of honey. Mix all the ingredients and place them over the pasta salad.
- Before serving, cut the avocado and tomato into thin slices and sprinkle the black olives and a little olive oil on top of the salad.
