In the summer I love to eat pasta salad. I'll make a large batch and eat it for days. It's great as a meal or a side dish and helps keep the temperature down in the house. Sometimes I add chicken into the recipe to turn it from side dish into main meal
INGREDIENTS
Dressing:
1/3 cup cider-vinegar
1/4 cup lemon juice
3 T water
2 T olive oil
1 T plus 1 1/2 teas dijon mustard
2 1/2 teas sugar
1 tsp minced garlic
1/2 teas pepper
1 teas dried basil
1 teas dried oregano
Salad:
1 lb cooked pasta of your choice, I personally use rigatoni
chopped vegetables of your choice, personally I use the following:
1 large tomato
1 cucumber
1/4 vidalia onion
1 carrots (chopped or shredded)
1 stalks celery
DIRECTIONS
Combine the dressing together in a bottle and shake well to combine. I normally make it first and let it sit and the flavors combine while I cook the pasta and chop veggies.
Combine all the salad ingredients together in a large bowl. Pour about half of the dressing over the salad and toss to combine. Add more dressing to you taste.
NUTRITION
Number Servings: 8
Calories: 230.75
Protein: 7.68 g
Fat: 1.38 g
Carbohydrates: 46 g
Fiber: 3.11 g
Potassium: 200 mg
Sodium: 25.38 mg
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Monday, July 5, 2010
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Great summer pasta salad! Have recently had to change to a low sodium diet and have discovered your blog...love it.
ReplyDeleteThanks! It means a lot to me that I can help make the diet switch easier for someone else! You may want to also check out http://dontsalt.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeletethanks for your great recipies i have a heart condition and can not have more than 1500mg of salt a day. i find with alot of the other recipies i have to go out for ingredience but yours are very refreshing and i have everything i need :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! That was my frustration when we first had to go low sodium! Since salt is a flavor enhancing I normally try to up the other flavors in the dish to compensate for the lack of salt.
DeleteThanks! That was my frustration when we first had to go low sodium! Since salt is a flavor enhancing I normally try to up the other flavors in the dish to compensate for the lack of salt.
DeleteI made this tonight - my husband is going low no sodium and i was looking for a dressing for my pasta salad and all of your stuff onhand! FYI for ease of reading you might use tsp for teaspoon and TBSP for Tablespoons. I was here wondering if teas sugar and teas mustard were a brand :(
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