Pasta Salad for Children
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Today I’ll show you my Pasta Salad Recipe for Children.
I’ve thought of something special, let you get carried away to cooking it yourself.
The preparation time is about 35 minutes, so it’s fast and twice as much fun.
I wish you good luck and a good appetite!
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Pasta Salad for Children
Pasta Salad for Children
Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple guide to prepare pasta salad.
Ingredients
| Noodle Salad Ingredients | ||
| 200-300 | g | Farfalle (I have used colorful pasta) |
| 1 | tbs | Salt (For the pasta water) |
| 8 | pc | cocktail tomatoes |
| 1 | tsp | Olive oil |
| 4 | pinches | Salt |
| 4 | pinches | black pepper |
| 6 | pc | peppers (I use small, colorful…) |
| 2 | pc | carrots |
| 1 | pc | Courgette |
| 1/2 | pc | cucumber |
| 1 | bunch | basil |
| 60-80 | g | parmesan |
| Topping for adults | ||
| 150 | g | crabs (or smoked tofu) |
| Dressing | ||
| 60 | ml | Olive oil |
| 6 | pinches | chili or cayenne pepper |
| 1 | pc | Lemon |
Equipment
Instruction
Prepare ingredients
Prepare the ingredients.
Bring the pasta water to the boil.
Season the water with salt, it may taste like sea water!
Cook pasta
Cook the pasta until almost soft, drain and cool under cold running water.
Prepare tomatoes
Wash and halve the tomatoes.
Tomatoes fry
Brown the tomatoes with a little oil in a coated pan.
Season with salt, pepper and a little sugar and place in a bowl.
Tomatoes caramelize
Alternatively you can caramelize whole tomatoes in a pan with the cream Brulee burner.
Prepare peppers
Halve the peppers, remove seeds and cut into strips.
Fry peppers
Fry the prepared pieces of pepper in a pan with a little oil and let them take their colour.
Season with salt, pepper and a little sugar.
Prepare carrots
Peel the carrots, halve lengthwise and cut into thin slices.
Then boil in a little water, seasoned with salt and a little sugar until soft.
Marinate salad
Mix all the prepared ingredients in a bowl.
Add plenty of finely chopped basil.
Add lemon juice.
Grate some Parmesan finely and fold in with the olive oil.
Serve
Serve pasta salad and decorate with parmesan and basil.
Alternatively the Topping with North Sea crabs or with Tofu for adults, or to the trying for the children supplement. Enjoy your meal!
The acidity in this salad is intentionally restrained.
You can adjust the taste yourself by adding lemon juice.
I always add very little sugar and taste the salad again just before serving.
Cousine
Keyword
2. Nutritional Information
3. Tip: Use colorful Farfalle for Pasta Salad
I have put extra vegetables in the dish, that is healthy and brings a wonderful blaze of color on the plate.
I use colourful pasta from the Italian speciality shop so that the children have fun.
Usually the colorful pasta is colored with beetroot juice, spinach, saffron and ink from the squid.
Ingredients info from chef Thomas Sixt to the colorful noodle
You can make this a theme at the table and turn it into a culinary experience.
Ink not only for the fountain pen 🙂 You can also choose gluten-free pasta and various shapes.
4. Popular Noodle Shapes for Pasta Salad
The following classic varieties are ideal…
- Campanelle
- Cellentani
- Chickpea Casarecce
- Chickpea Rotini
- Elbows
- Min Farfalle
- Mini Penne
- Gemelli
- Penne
- Rotini
For adults I added a secret ingredient, this pasta salad makes everyone happy 🙂
5. Typical Additions to the Pasta Salad
So that this court really makes everyone happy, I have considered another secret ingredient.
As topping you can put either North Sea crabs, shrimps or smoked tofu on top. So children and adults are happy!
Season Tips
Combine with wild garlic instead of basil or add wild garlic pesto or basil pesto.
This noodle salad tastes without mayonnaise, it is a light and aromatic variant for children’s birthday parties or other festivities in the year.
You can add fried chanterelles or mushrooms, as well as tuna with onions.
6. More Ideas
Mediterranean Pasta Salad
Asian Rice Noodle Salad Recipe
Tuna Pasta Salad Recipe
Tuna Noodles with Garlic and Peperoncino – Recipe Pasta al tonno fantastico
Tuna Pasta Recipe with Tomatoes
Glass Noodle Salad with Mango and Duck Breast Recipe
Comments, Cooking Questions and Answers
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