Pretty Pasta Salad With Peas, Parmesan and Ham

Submitted by joanna_giselle

"This is a wonderful pasta salad which I have been making for at least 15 years. In fact when I first moved to Greece and my mother visited me a year later, one of the first things she asked me was about how to make this recipe. I have made it for buffets and even for my engagement party and it tastes as good as it looks which is saying something! Enjoy."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 350 g spiral penne (tri-coloured is wonderful) or 350 g wheel pasta (tri-coloured is wonderful)
• 225 g ham (chopped)
• 225 g peas
• 3 tablespoons parmesan cheese (freshly-grated)
• 2 tablespoons parsley (finely-chopped)

• Dressing

• 1⁄3 cup olive oil (can reduce this amount to your personal preference)
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1⁄2 teaspoon dried basil
• salt and pepper

directions

1. Boil pasta in a large pot of salted water until firm. (I always add a stock cube to the water to improve the flavour-Maggi pasta stock cubes are ideal.).
2. Boil or microwave the peas until tender.
3. Add drained pasta, peas, parsley and ham in a large bowl and toss well.
4. Shake dressing ingredients together in a jam jar and pour over pasta salad.
5. Add parmesan cheese and serve.
6. Note: This tastes great the next day.

Reviews

[stormylee]

Oh this is really good!! I scaled the recipe down to one (very generous!) serving and had this for lunch. Wish I had made 1/2 recipe and had the rest on the next day - I'm sure this is even better after the flavours have had time to meld. Would be a great buffet salad! Thank you for sharing!