RECIPE: Stay healthy with delicious pasta salad
Tried and tested by Pamela Mkhungo.
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Looking for something healthy and quick to make? try this easy pasta salad.
Ingredients
- 300 g pasta (personal preference)
- 1 avocado
- salt and black pepper
- 1 cucumber/ sliced
- 9 OZ feta cheese
- 1/3 basil pesto
- 1/2 lemon
- 150 g cherry tomatoes (any color)
- pine nuts, plain/toasted
- basil leaves
- finely chopped bacon
Directions
- Boil the pasta in water for 22 minutes on medium heat, add olive oil so the pasta doesn’t stick
- Drain the water and the oil, and put the pasta in an open bowl, cut the avocado in small pieces
- In the pasta add cubed avocado, sliced cucumber, toasted nuts, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese
- Add the basil and bacon. Drizzle the lemon juice over
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper
- Toss all together carefully
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