Pasta salad with peas and ham

You can use a variety of pasta shapes.
ideally, choose one that holds the mayonnaise
well, such as bow-ties or elbow macaroni.

Italian recipe

Ingredients used 

300 g (10 oz) fusilli (spiral pasta) 

2 cups (240 g/8 oz) frozen peas

300 g (10 oz) ham, in one piece

10 small gherkins in vinegar, finely diced

3 medium tomatoes, halved and sliced

few springs of parsley

Yogurt mayonnaise

1/2 cup (125 g/4 oz) yogurt

1/2 cup (125 ml/4 fl oz) light mayonnaise

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar

salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/2 cup (40 g/2 oz) chopped fresh parsley

Making recipe

1  Cook pasta in plenty of lightly salted boiling water untill the following package instructions. Drain, rinse under cool running water and live to cool. cook pieces in lightly salted water in 2 to 3 min; leave to cool in cooking water.

2  stain peas, reserving cooking water. cut ham into small cubes. combine pasta, peas, ham and gherkind in a serving bowl; mix well.

3  To make yogurt mayonnaise, whisk yogurt, mayonnaise, 4 tablespoons reserved cooking water and vinegar in a bowl untill creamy and well combined. Season generously with salt and pepper. Stir in chopped parsley

4  Stir dressing in to salad. chill, covered, 30 min.Then Garnish with tomatoes and parsley springs.

serves 4

preparation + chilling 1 hour

cooking   15 min

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per serving 490 calories, 27 g protein,

15 g total fat, 3 g saturated fat, 54 mg cholesterol,

61 g carbohydrate, 9 g fibre