Pasta salad with Cream cheese dressing

Hi everyone…. Having salads for a meal is healthy choice right….? When it comes to salad, the options are much wide where you can play well. You can add anything and everything in a salad. Other salad recipes posted in this blog are roasted grape tomato and baby potato salad and Indian style pomegranate raita.

Servings :2

Ingredients:

2 cups of pasta and 6 cups of water

A handful of (mix of) spinach, baby kale, chard leaves (chopped or whole)

Half of red bell pepper (chopped)

Salt to taste

10 crotons

Cream cheese dressing:

3 tablespoons of cream cheese (softened)

1 teaspoon of olive oil

1 teaspoon of black pepper powder (increased or decreased as per your spice requirement)

1 ½ teaspoon of Italian seasoning mix

Salt (If necessary)

Method:

Boil 6 cups of water with salt and cook pasta in it till al dente. Drain off excess water and wash in running cold water. Set aside.

Whip the cream cheese with a spoon. Drizzle olive oil and then add black pepper powder, Italian seasoning and salt. Mix them well. This is the cream cheese dressing.

In a salad plate or bowl, put pasta, crotons, red capsicum and leaves. Add the prepared cream cheese dressing, sprinkle some salt and give a through mix. Refrigerate for 10 minutes and serve.

Note:

You can add I tablespoon of mayonnaise for the cream cheese dressing and mix any flavoring of your choice. For homemade mayonnaise, click here.

Make this refreshing pasta salad in your home too :-)