Low-calorie pasta salad: 3 recipe ideas

A pasta salad is ideal as a side dish for your next barbecue. You can find three delicious and low-calorie recipes here.

Italian-style low-calorie pasta salad

Invite friends to a barbecue, it is best to make enough pasta salad. Our quantities are sufficient for six people.

To do this, cook 500 grams of pasta. Whether you use penne or farfalle or any other pasta depends on your preferences.
For the dressing, mix 50 milliliters of milk with two tablespoons of olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
Also add a tablespoon of honey and four tablespoons of Dijon mustard. It is seasoned with a little pepper and salt.
Before pouring the dressing over the pasta, halve another 200 grams of cocktail tomatoes and cut four spring onions into fine rings.
When you have mixed these ingredients with the cooked pasta, fold in the dressing. The light pasta salad is decorated with a little rocket and parma ham cut into strips.
At the end, sprinkle a few roasted pine nuts over it.

This recipe also has enough for six servings.

First, cook 500 grams of pasta of your choice again.
Meanwhile, cut two large onions into rings and a bunch of washed radishes into thin slices.
The dressing is made from 50 milliliters of poultry broth with four tablespoons of olive oil and a tablespoon of white wine vinegar. Add a small dash of Tabasco as a seasoning.
The finely chopped pulp from two large tomatoes is also included in the dressing. Tip: Tomatoes are easy to skin if you blanch them briefly beforehand.
Mix the pasta with the dressing and spread the radishes and the onion rings over them.
Finally, put 200 grams of turkey breast cut into strips on the pasta salad and decorate it with fresh cress.

A pasta salad with pesto is prepared very quickly.

Here too, cook six grams of pasta of your choice for six people.
While the pasta is cooking, mix six tablespoons of basil pesto with ten tablespoons of balsamic vinegar. White balsamic vinegar is better for dressing than darker.
Season the dressing with a little pepper and a pinch of sugar. When the noodles are cooked, mix them warm with the dressing.
Next, cut cocktail tomatoes in half. You need a kilo of tomatoes for the recipe.
You also dry three balls of mozzarella and cut them into small pieces.
Wash an additional 500 grams of arugula and dry the salad thoroughly with kitchen paper.
Once you have mixed the pasta and dressing well, add the other ingredients under the salad and sprinkle it with a little grated parmesan.

In our next kitchen tip, we'll show you how to make low-calorie zucchini buffers yourself.