Pasta salad with vegetables

We somedays have salad for lunch. Today we have made chickpeas pasta with loads of vegetables.

Chickpeas pasta salad ready to devour!

The delicious pasta ready.

Serving the pasta into bowls.

We have started to pick pasta made out of rajma, chickpeas and vegetables. They taste good.

Chickpea fusilli (pasta) with vegetables

Ingredients

2 handfuls of chickpea pasta

1 sweet corn

2 tablespoon olive/peanut oil

10 button mushrooms

10 french beans

1/2 capsicum

3 cauliflower florets

3 cloves garlic

5-6 babycorns(optional)

10 black olives

3 tablespoon of tomato puree/pasta sauce

1/2 teaspoon of mixed herbs like rosemary, oregano, thyme,basil

1 teaspoon of curly parsley ( mine got dried )

Salt as required,( better add towards the end,as sauce,cheese all have salt in it.)

Method

*Cook pasta in sufficient water till done.

*Wash and chop all vegetables. Keep aside

* Pour oil and vsaute garlic, add all vegetables,cook for a few minutes.

*Add dry herbs, a little salt, mix well.

*Add pasta sauce/tomato puree.

#Add cooked pasta, cheese and mix well.

*Let the cheese mildly melt. Add black olives.

* Serve in bowls.

*Sprinkle a little lemon juice.

Enjoy your pasta salad with strawberry lemonade! Yum.

Notes

Use good quality mozzarella cheese for better results.

* Use more vegetables than pasta, make sure you select fresh tender vegetables of your children's choice.

A handful of black olives, sweet corn kernels to make the salad more appealing to kids.

* Capsicum cut into small pieces. You can use them towards the end for better flavour.

We had our pasta salad with a delicious vegetable salad and strawberries lemonade. A handful of fresh pudina leaves added the zing that we were looking forward to.