Healthy Pasta Mayo Salad with Veggies and Feta Cheese

Name: Healthy Pasta Mayo Salad with Veggies and Feta Cheese
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 50 gms Pasta Boiled as per instruction on packet and cooled; 1/4 cup Mayonnaise (Italian herb mayo or any flavour); 100-150 gms Feta Cheese; 60 gms Bellpepper (any color); 50 gms Broccoli; 20 gms Carrot; 15 gms / 5 nos. Beans; 50 gms Onion; Few leaves of Fresh Basil; 2 Leaves Romain Lettuce 🥬; 4-5 leaves Arugula/ Rocket; 2-3 tbsp Pomegranate Arils; Half Juice of a lemon (small size); 1 pinch or as per taste Salt; 1 generous pinch of Crushed Black pepper; as per preference Chilli flakes

Jibita Khanna @Jibitakhanna

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Pasta Mayo Salad in my style.
I have added Blanched Broccoli, Carrot and French beans into the salad along with other raw veggies.
I didn't add fresh chillies to it, if you desire you can add that too.
You can add dry mixed Italian seasoning too but since I have used fresh basil and Italian herbs flavoured mayonnaise so didn't add any.
Feta cheese is a white salty Greek cheese.
Note: Don't throw away the water in which you boiled the veggies for blanching. Add in your Dal or curries.

Jibita Khanna @Jibitakhanna

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Ingredients

1 hour

2 servings

50 gmsPasta Boiled as per instruction on packet and cooled
1/4 cupMayonnaise (Italian herb mayo or any flavour)
100-150 gmsFeta Cheese
60 gmsBellpepper (any color)
50 gmsBroccoli
20 gmsCarrot
15 gms/ 5 nos. Beans
50 gmsOnion
Few leaves of Fresh Basil
2 LeavesRomain Lettuce 🥬
4-5 leavesArugula/ Rocket
2-3 tbspPomegranate Arils
HalfJuice of a lemon (small size)
1 pinchor as per taste Salt
1generous pinch of Crushed Black pepper
as per preference Chilli flakes

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Steps

1 hour

1

Blanch the Broccoli, carrot and beans. Blanching - Boil water first and then add veggies boil Broccoli for 2-3 minutes and then put in chilled water, and boil the carrot n beans for next 5 minutes or so till they were soft and done but not mushy and put them too in chilled water to stop the cooking process. So all the veggies are blanched now.
2

Cube the bell peppers(I have used yellow and red both as I had at home), slice the onion after cutting it into 4. Make the blanched broccoli a little smaller in size, cut the blanched beans into half-inch size and carrot into cubes. Tear the lettuce, Arugula and basil leave roughly by hand.
3

In a big bowl, add in everything except the Fetta cheese, mayonnaise, chilli flakes, salt and lemon, give it a quick gentle mix.
4

Then add the mayonnaise to it and mix well. Add lemon juice as needed and as per taste, I added the juice of half a small lemon. If you want add the chilli flakes. I sprinkled after platting only. Check salt, if needed add and mix, I added only a small pinch of salt. Put it on the serving plate and top it with Feta Cheese cubed or just break it with hand and sprinkle chilli flakes on it. Serve at room temperature or chill it.
5

As it's winter we didn't chill but had it in the room. Bon Appetit.

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Jibita Khanna @Jibitakhanna

on December 10, 2020 15:55

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