Pasta salad recipe | Easy to make pasta salad recipe – Healthy pasta salad recipe with step-by-step pictures and full video.
Vegetarian pasta salad recipe with a simple salad dressing using easily available ingredients. An easy summer pasta salad recipe and a very filling one too. Since we are adding chickpeas to this salad, it is a protein-rich salad. It is a perfectly balanced meal for people who are on diet.
You can use whole wheat pasta to make it healthier. We are adding cucumber, chickpeas, cherry tomato, and olives to this pasta salad.
You can add zucchini, blanched broccoli, blanched beans, and carrots too. I prefer to add more veggies and less pasta when I want to have a light meal. Also, you can pack this for the lunch box too. You can make it the previous night and pack it for the next day.
Also check out our, Maharashtrian style cucumber salad, fruit sundal, mango salad, millet salad.
Try this easy pasta salad recipe and let me know how it turned out.
Pasta salad recipe
Ingredients
For the dressing
- 1 tsp dried oregano I used fresh ones
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp chopped garlic
- 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp chili flakes optional
Other ingredients
- 1 cup cooked pasta
- ½ cup chopped cucumber
- ½ cup chopped cherry tomato
- ¼ cup olives
- ½ cup cooked chickpeas
- ¼ cup cubed capsicum
- 1 red onion
- Salt as needed
Instructions
Let’s make the dressing first.
- In a small bowl add the oregano, olive oil, chopped garlic, lemon juice, brown sugar(you can add jaggery too), pepper and chili flakes.
- Mix well.
- In a wide bowl add the cooked pasta ( I used fusilli, you can penne or macroni too), cucumber, cherry tomato, olives, cooked chickpeas, cubed capsicum and finely chopped red onion.
- Add salt.
- Now add the dressing to this.
- Mix well.
- Serve immediately.
- You can keep all the ingredients ready and just assemble before you serve.
Video
Notes
- Let’s make the dressing first.
- In a small bowl add the oregano, olive oil, chopped garlic, lemon juice, brown sugar(you can add jaggery too), pepper and chili flakes.
- Mix well.
- In a wide bowl add the cooked pasta ( I used fusilli, you can penne or macroni too), cucumber, cherry tomato, olives, cooked chickpeas, cubed capsicum and finely chopped red onion.
- Add salt.
- Now add the dressing to this.
- Mix well.
- Serve immediately.
- You can keep all the ingredients ready and just assemble them before you serve.
- Use any variety of pasta of your choice.
- Instead of pasta you can add cooked millet too.
- You can add cubed carrots to this pasta salad.
Wholesome meal…brilliantly clicked !! Colourful salad,kids would love too!
Looks very colourful n refreshing …yum and nice pics
That's a good thing for a light lunch.
FOODELICIOUS
Lovely dressing, catchy and refreshing salad…prefect for hot summer lunch..
Pics look colorful and inviting.
The salad looks yum and very colourful:) Perfect for healthy eating..
Reva
yummy colourful pasta looks delicious
I love pasta salad as its meal by itself..looks yumm
Looks very colourful n refreshing …yum and nice pics
so colorful pasta !! loved the clicks !!
Very colorful and delicious looking salad with pasta. Great preparation.
Deepa
Hamaree Rasoi
Pasta in any form is my favorite… Love this healthy and colorful salad..
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These kind of salads are treat to the eyes as well as the taste buds too! ur preparation looks gorgeous 😛
Lovely salad Jeyashri… perfect for summers.Beautiful presentation.
so simple and so good..looks so colourful and yumm..
healthy n different salad!!looks colourful n yumm!
Such a colorful meal by itself!
Looks gorgeous and beautifully clicked. Luv it. Healthy and unique
Healthy n colorful salad, never thought of salad with pasta, nice idea
That is a very colorful looking bowl Jeyashri.
colourful and healthy salad
Colorful & yes… a dieter`s treat!!! Nice clicks 🙂
Prathima Rao
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Looks yummy. colorful. wanna try this..
Perfect !!! Very colorful n awesome clicks!!!
Lovely colorful meal.
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Colorful and yummy pasta salad..loved the first click!
looks colorful and delicious , would love to give a try 🙂
Great presentation and looks healthy, shall try this some time…
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Yum..! I ve seen this recipe before..and never thought about making it..now I def will..:P
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Looks delicious and healthy. nice clicks.
Great pasta salad .. perfect for the weather and I love pasta all the time!
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Such a great salad idea- gonna be a hit with kids too!
Looks very colorful and delicious!
really healthy……….nd superb clicks……
colourful pasta…nice presentation!
That's really yummy and a healthy one too.