Pasta Salad

               

 Pasta salad is almost loved by all alike.. It gives the taste of a creamy pasta along with the freshness of salad... You can use any pasta for the salad.. be it macroni or fusili or penne.. according to your own liking.. Here I have used very tiny pastas (the shape of an eye lens)  knows as pastina, which is generally used in soups and broths, but these were available to me and so I wanted to use this for my salad...

                For the dressing i have used oats white sauce, recipe of which can be found in my list of recipes in sauce section..  You can even substitute it for mayonnaise or cream, but this oats white sauce has made the salad very healthy apart from making it creamy.. The vegetables can be added according to your own liking ie broccoli, mushrooms, sweet corn, purple cabbage etc.. Make sure you cut the vegetables approximately the size of the pasta ie if your using tiny pasta, chop it finely or the size of sweet corn, if your using fusilli cut it in juliennes.. This will give a uniformity to your salad and try making it as colourful as possible with all different coloured veggies..

Ingredients:

1 cup boiled pasta

1 small onion chopped

3-4 babycorn chopped and blanched

1 tomato chopped without pulp

1 small bellpepper (any color) chopped

1/2 cup oats white sauce

Salt

Pepper

1/2 lemon juice

1tbsp olive oil

Method: Mix all the ingredients together and serve.. Incase you like, you can cool the salad in refrigerator for almost 2hrs and serve cold.. It tastes amazing.. But remember not to add onions if you refrigerate the salad.. Otherwise the smell of onions would start dominating the taste of salad..