Whole Wheat Pasta Salad

This salad has become our dinner these days. All of us including my daughter have a bowl of this salad and dinner is sorted.

This takes just about 15 minutes to put together and is really filling.

Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cooking Time : 10 minutes
Serves : 3

Ingredients

Whole wheat Penne / Shell Pasta - 3 handfuls (I use just about any kind of pasta)
Onion - 1 big, chopped into cubes
Cherry tomatoes / thick portion of regular tomatoes - 1/4 cup
Cucumber - 1 medium chopped into cubes
Carrot - 1 medium, chopped into cubes / Baby carrots, boiled slightly with salt
Baby Corn - 5, chopped into 1" rounds
Sweet Corn - 1/4 cup, boiled (Fresh / Frozen)
Aubergines / Big eggplant / Big brinjal - 1/2, sliced into thin discs
Colored Peppers - Chopped into cubes (I use red, yellow, orange and green)
Olives (pitted / sliced green / black) - 1/4 cup
Oregano - 1 tbsp (i use dried)
Parsley - 1tbsp (Dried / fresh)
Feta Cheese - 2" cube grated finely. If using the frozen feta, refresh it by adding it into hot water for 5 minutes.
Salt - to taste
Olive Oil - 3 tbsp

Procedure

1. Preheat the oven to 200 C
2. Take two baking trays, line with foil, lay the aubergine discs and colored peppers on the trays, drizzle with oil and set to grill for 10 minutes at 200 C
3. Meanwhile, chop all the vegetables.
4. Cook the pasta in boiling water with salt for 9 minutes. Drain and set aside in a wide bowl.
5. When the aubergines and peppers are done, take them from the oven
6. Mix all the ingredients together and enjoy this lovely and filling pasta salad.


Note :

You could  go ahead and add broccoli, zucchini and any other vegetable.