Fruit Pasta Salad Recipe

 

By: Isabel Robson

Serves: 4
Preparation: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
500g Penne pasta
200g Broccoli florets
1/2 Cup pineapple chunks
1/2 Cup garden peas
1/2 Cup loose sweetcorn
1/2 Cup papaya chunks
1/2 Cup melon chunks
1/2 Cup Black pitted olives
2 Table spoons salad cream
1 Table spoon olive oil
1 Table spoon of fresh chives
1 Small gherkin
1 tsp English mustard
5 Spring onions
Salt and pepper

• Boil pasta, drain and allow to cool down.
• Boil broccoli, sweet corn and garden peas separately, drain and cool down.
• Mix salad cream, mustard, olive oil in a large salad bowl.
• Season with sea salt and ground black pepper.
• Add finely chopped onion, gherkin, chives and spring onions.
• Add cold pasta, broccoli, peas, fruit chunks and stir gently.
• Check seasoning to your taste.
  
• Chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes before serving.

This recipe is great for a packed lunch.
 It holds for a couple days in the fridge, if you have any left over that is!