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This salad is perfect for those warm summer evenings when you don’t want to cook. It’s easy and quick to prepare and delicious. After buying premade salads one day for dinner I decided to try and make my own. I just added whatever ingredients I felt like at that moment and this salad was born. It’s an original Lola recipe 😉
Ingredients
- Cabbage – 3 or 4 big leaves
- Pasta (I recommend orzo) – 0.5 cup
- Corn – 0.5 cup
- Egg – 3
- Olive Oil
- Salt – to taste
- Pepper – to taste
- Vinegar – to taste(optional)
This recipe feeds about 1-2 people. I usually make it for one person and then have a bit leftovers for later that evening or the next day.
Method
- Start by boiling the pasta for ten minutes or follow the instructions on the package.
- While the pasta I boiling start with the egg. Break the eggs in a small bowl and scramble them with a fork. Add soem salt and pepper. Then heat soem olive oil in a pan and bake the egg, while scrambling.
- Tear 3 or 4 big leaves from the cabbage, tear them into small pieces and wash with some water. Set aside.
- Once the pasta is done boiling you can assemble the salad. You cna also wait till the pasta has cooled down a bit, but I like making it immediately. Pick a big bowl and scoop the pasta in it, then add the egg, corn and cabbage. Add a tablespoon or two olive oil, and soem salt and pepper to taste. Add a tablespoon vinegar (optional). Stir well.
- Enjoy your salad!
Pictures
Variation Tips
- Spiced egg pasta salad Instead of adding salt and pepper to the egg, add some sambal and soy sauce. To give it a more spicy flavour.
- Vary with veggies Not a fan of corn? You can also add peas, beans, carrots or nay other veggies you like.
- Pasta salad with boiled egg Instead of scrambling the eggs, boil them and slice them into tiny pieces and mix them through the salad.
Mmmm, this looks like a tasty recipe! I’m bookmarking it!
Yay! I hope you’ll like it :).
That looks really good. I never thought about adding rice or pasta to a dish but that sounds pretty good.
My mom and sister both like pasta salads, so I decided to give it a try as well. I really like corn and egg, so that’s what I added to mine.
Wow, Lola. That looks really good and easy to make! I will try it out some time and let you know how it goes 🙂
It’s really easy to make and ready soon and it’s really good. I am making it again this week! Let me know if you try it out :), would love to hear what you think of it!
I love your recipes! In fact, I just got inspired to try my own pasta salad. I bought pasta like this recently, so I think I’m gonna try it with some corn and red bell peppers and see what else I can throw in. Thanks! 🙂
Thanks! That makes me so happy to hear! These small pasta’s are perfect for salads. Let me know how your salad turns out!
It turned out good! It could use a few more ingredients than I had lying around, because it’s still a little boring like this, but it’s perfect for the hot weather we’re having, and I’ll probably make it again at some point. I was wondering what to do with the pasta, because they look like they’d be good for soup, but I’m not a huge soup eater, so this is a great solution. 🙂
That’s what I like most about salads, they are prefect for when the weather is too hot too cook. I don’t eat a lot of soup either, but this pasta is great for salads as well. I guess you probably can also eat it with a sauce or instead of rice?
Well yeah, you can certainly use it just like regular pasta, but I wanted something SPECIAL. 😀
I understand, I never use this in the ways I use regular pasta, it just feels more special somehow
Sounds yummy and EASY! I like pasta salads, I don’t know if I would have thought of scrambling up some eggs – I usually hard boil. I’ll have to try that.
It’s really easy and it’s really good! I love eggs and I thought it would be a great additions, to give it a bit more variation and flavour. I like boil eggs, but I like scrambled eggs better, so that’s probably why I thought to scramble it.
Yummy, what a super easy no fuss meal! Love what you’ve done with it Lola, keep them coming!
Thanks Jeann :). So glad to hear you like my recipe posts! I thought it would be nice to make something easy and summery for a chance.
I do like all of those ingredients on their own. Might have to try mixing this all up 🙂
If you like all the ingredients, you hopefully like them mixed as well. I made it on a whim and thought it turned out pretty well and the combination really works.
I’ll replace the eggs by tofu but I have everything in store to make the recipe 🙂 My favorite dressing is a pad thai dressing (I make it with 1 tablespoon of peanuts purée, very little red pimento purée, 2 tablespoons of agave syrup, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of tamari and 60ml vegetable broth – that’s about 2 oz). My favorite dressing ever, I always make too much and store it in a little bottle in the fridge 🙂
You can also scramble tofu, just tear it into pieces and bake it. I have made that a few times, it has quite the same texture as eggs that way, although ofcourse it does taste different.
I am not sure if I can get all those ingredients here, will have to look. Do you think I can substitute tamari for soy sauce? It sounds pretty similiar to the peanut dressing I make for the spring rolls.
I bet soy sauce will do 🙂
Thanks that’s good to know 🙂