Italian pasta salad
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Recipe type: Side
Serves: 4 persons
 
preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 7 minutes Very delicious & healthy Italian pasta salad
Ingredients
  • Penne pasta - 1 lb
For salad preparation
  • Tomato - 1 cup, chopped into small pieces
  • Cucumber - ½ cup, chopped
  • Green beans - ½ cup, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • Onion - 1 large size, cut into small pieces
For dressing preparation
  • Olive oil - 1 tbsp
  • White vinegar - 1 tbsp
  • Lime juice - 2 tsp
  • Fennel - 1 tsp
  • Garlic cloves - 2 pieces, chopped
  • Oregano - 1 tsp
  • Black pepper - pinches of, powder
  • Salt - as needed
Instructions
  1. Boil penne pasta for 6-7 minutes, drain water and then wash in running water
  2. Now cut all vegetables for salad preparation in small pieces (use all raw vegetables except green beans, steam/boil green beans before adding to your bowl
  3. Now add all dressing ingredients in a bowl and mix all by using a hand blender or manual blender
  4. Then add vegetables and cooked pasta in a large bowl and toss to mix
  5. Spread salad dressing over vegetables & cooked pasta, mix with large spoons
  6. Now keep it in a refrigerator and serve it next day (spread pinches of back pepper powder before serving)
Notes
If any particular process is mentioned to cook pasta in your package direction, then you should follow that
Wash your cooked pasta in running normal water to avoid stickiness
Boil green beans with pasta it saves time to prepare this Italian pasta salad
Use any other types of pasta instead of penne if you want
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