Cold Pasta Salad With Potatoes

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Cold Pasta salad with potatoes is an Italian salad. You can serve this salad for parties or have it as an evening snack. This recipe is very simple to make. Just boil pasta, potatoes and green peas separately. You can even add boiled carrots to this recipe. After boiling, mix them together, add mayonnaise and other ingredients and toss. Refrigerate and serve chilled. The salad tastes best when it is cold. But even if it is not refrigerated it tastes good.

Boiled potatoes are good for health. They promote bone health as they are rich in calcium. They also help prevent constipation as they are rich in dietary fiber. Children love boiled potatoes and hence you can combine them with pasta and pack into their snack box too.

Ingredients: Prep. Time: 20 Mins, Serves: 2
1 cup penne pasta
12 baby potatoes
1/4 cup green peas
5 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 teaspoon black pepper powder
2 cups torn lettuce
1/2 lemon, juiced
Salt to taste
Italian seasoning for garnish

Procedure:
1) Boil the pasta in 3 cups water al-dente. Drain and keep aside.
2) Pressure cook the potatoes until boiled. Peel and cut into halves.
3) Simultaneously boil the green peas in a bowl and keep aside.
4) In a mixing bowl, add pasta, green peas, potatoes and lettuce.
5) Add mayonnaise, black pepper powder, lemon juice and salt to taste and toss.
6) Garnish with Italian seasoning.
7) Refrigerate it and serve chilled.

Note: Vegetables of your choice can be added to this recipe. Like boiled or steamed carrots and beans. Add more mayonnaise if you love it.