Lunch Box Pasta Salad
Perfect as your kid's school lunchbox meal or as a side dish for your mains, this pasta salad is light, delicious and satisfying
This great pasta salad is brilliant as a lunch for work or school, but you can also serve it as a side dish to grilled or barbecued meats.
Yield: Serves 4
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Difficulty Level: 2/5
Ingredients
- 250 g small pasta
- 2/3 cup (200 g) mayonnaise
- 2 tsp wholegrain mustard
- 300 g can butter beans, rinsed, drained
- 100 g roasted capsicum, drained, chopped
- 250 g cherry tomatoes, halved
- 100 g leg ham, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup (55 g) chopped baby green beans
- 1/3 cup (25 g) parmesan cheese flakes
- salt and freshly ground pepper
Steps
01. Cook pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water until just tender; drain. Rinse pasta under cold water, then drain well. Transfer pasta to a large bowl and cool.
02. Add combined mayonnaise and mustard to pasta in bowl.
03. Stir in butter beans, capsicum, tomato, ham, beans and parmesan. Season to taste with salt and pepper.