Pineapple Pasta Salad

Name: Pineapple Pasta Salad Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 Lb Whole wheat Rotini Pasta; 1/2 Lb Pineapple chunks; 1 Cucumber very finely grated; 1/2 Green bell paper very finely grated; 1 tea spoon Olive oil cooking spray; Salt to your taste (approx 1 tea spoon); 1/4 bunch Cilantro finely chopped

Minutes to Prepare: 20
Minutes to Cook: 10

Number of Servings: 6

Ingredients

1 Lb Whole wheat Rotini Pasta1/2 Lb Pineapple chunks1 Cucumber, very finely grated1/2 Green bell paper, very finely grated1 tea spoon Olive oil cooking spraySalt to your taste (approx 1 tea spoon)1/4 bunch Cilantro, finely chopped

Directions

In a deep pan heat approx 3 Lb water.
Add salt, Olive oil cooking spray, and pasta.
Boil for 8-12 min on low, or until pasta becomes tender.
Remove hot water and gently rinse pasta with luke-warm water. Let it cool for 5 min.
In a large salad bowl add pasta, Pineapple chunks, grated Cucumber and Grated green bell papers.
Gently mix and spread Cilantro over it. Keep in refrigerator for 15 min and its ready to serve.
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(Hint: If you want less of sweet taste you may reduce the quantity of Pineapple and increase cucumber and vise-versa)
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PS: The actual calories, fat, cholesterol etc. values listed here are higher, as I could not find Whole wheat pasta in the list. These are values for regular pasta. I haven't included olive oil cooking spray as the cooking spray has zero calories and zero fat.

Number of Servings: 6

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user RKA_ME.

Servings Per Recipe: 6

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