Pasta Salad

This blog is dedicated to those who don't care what goes into their food, as long as it tastes good. So am not including any specific ingredients. Just those that I have used the many times I have cooked the salad. Ye..salads are usually not cooked. But when the making process invloves even a wee bit cooking, then obviously you cook a salad. hahaha...ok, poor joke. Now we go straight to the reipe. It takes anywhere between 10-25 minutes, depending on the quantity you want to cook, of the salad.

Pasta Salad

Ingredients
Penne Pasta-100 gms[or multiples of it, cooked as per the instructions on the packet. Usually cooked in water to which salt has been added...for 10 minutes or more until it is biteworthy and soft]
Salad vegetables-cut into chunk size pieces or juliennes or small pieces, depending on one's patience and liking. I always but cut veggies. Heehee...hence the big explanation for how the veggies can be cut
Balsamic Vinegar
Natural Salad dressing[usually has garlic, paprika, salt and pepper added to it]
Butter-1 tbsp or more, as per your calorie conscius approach

Salad Vegetables: I usually use 2 or 3 or all of the following:
Onions
Red/green/yellow capsicum
Spring onions
Mushrooms
Tomato

Method

1. Add butter into a wok and add all the vegetables and lightly saute for 2-3 minutes, until the onions become soft.
2. Add the cooked pasta into it and toss for 1 minute.
3. Transfer pasta to a serving bowl
4. Add the balsamic vinegar and natural salad dressing. Depending on how tangy you want your salad, adjust the quantity of the balsamic vinegar.
5. Let it stand for 10 minutes. Toss it well before serving.

You can eat this salad warm or cold. Either ways, it tastes just as yummy. This salad can be used as a starter, snack or a meal, depending on the size of your healpings and you can't go wrong in making this.

Each time I post the picture in the beginning. Let me round off this blog with a picture of the salad. Bon Apetit!