Cooking level: easy
Timing: an hour
Origin: Italian
Nutrition: low
We all just love Italian cuisine and we simply cannot help eating it. Italian cuisine cannot definitely be regarded as the healthiest one, because it is all about oil, spaghetti, pasta, pizza and cheese. Today we will be making a pasta salad, which has Italian origins, like the pasta has, and it tastes simply wonderful. What makes this salad different from other salads is that actually it is not such a healthy one as you may think. The pasta, which is the main ingredient of the dish, is not healthy at all. However, this salad also makes you full very early, so it is not one of those salads that basically do not say anything to your stomach.
Thus, let’s start making this salad and understand what ingredients we need.
Here is the list of ingredients, below.
The ingredients for pasta salad.
You will need approximately 2-3 cups of macaroni
Parmesan cheese, approximately 1/3 cup
Garlic salt of 1/3 tablespoon
Ripe olives, about 2 cups
Zucchini. Basically 1 zucchini is enough.
Plain yogurt, must be fat free
1 tablespoon of Italian seasoning
1 Medium onion
2-3 medium tomatoes
As you can see the ingredients are quite easy to get, so there is nothing complicated over there. Once you went to shop and have all of them by your side, let’s start making it.
The making
You have to boil water in a big jar, and add the macaroni there. Depending on the type on macaroni you will need different timing to have them cooked. Just check all the time and try. When you feel that they are cooked then cease the fire and let it cool off.
Wash the garlic and onion and chop them into small pieces so as they can hardly be seen. Then wash the tomatoes and the zucchini and cut them as well. Take a large bowl, add the zucchini, tomatoes, garlic, onion, the cheese, yogurt and the Italian seasoning. Mix them all together properly. When the macaroni is cooled off, make it free of water and add to the mass you have. Mix one more time.
You stunning and beautifully tasty salad is already ready.
This salad can be a really good option for breakfast, for dinner and for lunch as well. We do not recommend eating it on supper as it can be hard for late hours.
The salad is very easy to make and there is nothing complicated there. The only thing is that you have to be careful in order not to overcook the macaroni. It will take you about 1 hour to make this amazing salad. When it comes to nutrition, then we would like to say that it is medium. It makes you feel full very early but macaroni does not contain so many vitamins and other staff needed for you. One more thing is to remember. This is a salad, but if you want to lose weight this is not the best salad you can find. This is recommended to the people who have no weight problem.
Enjoy your Italian pasta salad.
