Recipe: Pasta salad

Tangy pasta salad is not only healthy but also makes for the perfect side dish at any time of the day.

Add some zing to your life with my recipe for tangy pasta salad which is not only healthy but makes for the perfect side dish at any time of the day. If you are more health-conscious, replace your meals with it and indulge in the earthy flavours of everyday vegetables doused in vinegar and feta cheese. I promise you will love it!

Ingredients:

Boiled pasta (any kind) 2 and ½ cups

Sliced carrots ½ cup

Sliced cucumbers 2/3 cup

Sliced onion ½ cup

Garlic paste 1 tsp

Oil 4 tbsp

Sugar 2 tbsp

Ketchup 4 tbsp

Oregano 1 and ½ tbsp

Vinegar (to taste)

Salt (to taste)

Black pepper (to taste)

Method

•  Heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté the garlic paste.

•  Add ketchup, sugar, vinegar, salt and black pepper to the pan and allow the mixture to cook until the sugar melts completely.

•  Turn the flame off and allow the mixture to cool.

•  Add the boiled pasta to the pan and toss well.

•  Add the sliced vegetables to the pan and toss.

•  Sprinkle oregano on the salad and allow it to cool.

•  Serve chilled. Your salad is now ready.

Arooj Waqar runs a Facebook cooking page called Mona’s Kitchen and aspires to convert her passion for cooking into a career

Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, January 19^th, 2014.