Monday, July 19, 2010

Healthy Pasta Salad



This is a quite healthy vegetables loaded lunch with Omega 3 from tilapia! I love this simple and easy recipe and would like to share it with you. The nice thing about salad is that you can basically add in any vegetable that you like and mix it with the dressing and it will turned out to be a good meal !

Ingredients
1/4 box macaroni
1 slice low fat cheese
4 tablespoon low fat mayonaise
1 tablespoon yellow mustard
1/2 tb garlic powder
1/2 tb dry parsley
1/2 cup of broccoli florets
1/2 cup corns
1/2 cup green peas
dash of pepper to taste
dash of sat to taste
2 tilapia fillets marinated with salt and pepper
1 ts vegetable oil

1) Bring 2 large pot of lightly salted water to boil
2) Add pasta and cook for 5-8 minutes until al dente in one pot and cook brocolli , corn and peas in another pots for 3-5 minutes
3) Drain brocolli, peas and corns and rinse in cold water. Drain the pasta and stir in one slice of cheese until melted
4) Heat 1 ts oil in a non stick skillet over med heat
5) Sear tilapia about 5 minutes each side or until just cooked
6) Mix mayonaise, mustard, parsley, brocolli, corns, green peas, and garlic powder in a bowl
7) Lastly, add in the fish and if you prefer big chunks, just slightly break the fillet and mix in with the salad
8) Add salt and pepper to taste

3 comments:

  1. Hello! I saw this blog in Foodista. Thanks for using the foodista widget. I suggest it is best to put your foodista widget in the body of your post at the end of your blog. This way your pasta salad blog link will be added in the pasta salad food page in Foodista.
    If you need help, you can email me at christine@foodista.com and i'll be glad to help! Thanks!!

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  2. I like this, the natural clours combination!

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  3. hey Sze Yean .. I love your cooking too ! I have been stalking on your facebook lately looking at ur delicious dishes ..:)

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