Easy Pasta Salad

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Serves 8 to 10

Ingredients:

• 200g pasta
• 2 carrots diced and steamed
• 1 capsicum diced
• 2tbsp peas boiled
• 1 potato boiled and diced
• 3tbsp black chickpeas cooked
• 1 onion sliced
• 1 tomato diced
• 1 cucumber diced
• 2tbsp roasted peanuts
• 1 apple peeled and diced
• 1tbsp coriander leaves roughly chopped
• 2tbsp cabbage chopped

For dressing

• 2tbsp olive oil
• 2tbsp lime juice
• 1tsp salt
• 1tsp black pepper freshly crushed
• 1/2tsp castor sugar

Put all the salad ingredients in a large salad bowl. Chill the bowl in the refrigerator  Whisk together all the ingredients for the dressing. The dressing should always be poured on the salad right before serving it. Toss the salad properly so that the dressing spreads evenly. You could even add 1 tbsp of  mayonnaise to the dressing if you are a mayo fan.

Serve immediately and enjoy.