Healthy Pasta Salad
A quick vegetarian salad recipe that can be put together within 15 minutes.
Ingredients
- 2 cups fusilli pasta cooked
- ½ cup cucumber chopped
- ⅓ cup onion sliced
- ½ cup tomato chopped
- ½ cup carrots chopped
- ½ cup rajma or kidney beans cooked
- 2 tbsp ricotta cheese
For the dressing:
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp honey
- 1 large-sized garlic clove minced
- 2 tsp Italian seasoning
- 1 tsp black pepper powder
- Pinch of chilly flakes
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- To make the dressing, take a large bowl and add all the ingredients listed under salad dressing. Give it a good whisk.
- Then to the same bowl, add cooked pasta, kidney beans, chopped cucumber, onion, tomato and carrot. Toss until all the ingredients are evenly coated with the dressing.
- Garnish with fresh ricotta cheese and serve.