Quinoa Pasta Salad

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 10
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 200.7
  • Total Fat: 7.4 g
  • Cholesterol: 21.5 mg
  • Sodium: 605.9 mg
  • Total Carbs: 24.6 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 2.4 g
  • Protein: 8.4 g

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Introduction

Quick, easy, delicious, and healthy!! Quick, easy, delicious, and healthy!!
Number of Servings: 10

Ingredients

    1 Package Ancient Harvest Quinoa Pasta, 8 oz.
    1/3 C Wishbone Romano Basil Vinaigrette
    1/2 Green Bell Pepper, chopped
    1/2 Red Bell Pepper, chopped
    1/2 Yellow Bell Pepper, chopped
    1/8 C onion, chopped
    1/4 C Red Ripe Tomato, diced
    3 oz. Mozzerella Cheese, in small cubes
    (I use 2, part-skim mozz. cheese sticks and cut them into small slices)
    1 package, Hormel Turkey Pepperoni

Directions

Prep all ingredients: Chop peppers, tomato, onion, and mozzerella and put into a serving bowl.

Follow directions on box of pasta; cook for about 9 minutes--the pasta will be slightly firm, but this is perfect. Quinoa pasta does not cook like regular pasta noodles--the quinoa will end up mushy after it cools if you cook it too long (likened to the firmness of a "regular" noodle).

Strain and run cold water over noodles to stop the cooking process and to get your noodles to tempurature. Add the noodles to the veggie/cheese blend and stir gently. Add the Romano-Basil dressing and the turkey pepperoni. Fold all the ingredients in, and presto, a delicious side dish!



Number of Servings: 10

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user AC_APPLEQUEEN.