Pasta Salad With Pink Salmon And Cocktail Onions

This recipe serves 6 - 8 persons.

This is a self contained one-pot meal.

The Ingredients:

• 1/2 pound/ 250 gm short pasta, for example, penne

• 2 zucchini, sliced

• 2 tins x 415 gm/15oz pink salmon, drained

• 16 cocktail onions, quartered

• 1/2 lettuce

• 2 red capsicums or bell peppers, cut chunkily

Here's how to put this salad recipe together:

• Cook the penne

• When it is close to ready, toss in zucchini slices to blanch. Don't overcook. Keep the zucchini still a little crunchy

• As soon as the penne is al dente, run the contents under the cold water tap to stop it cooking and to cool it down

• While waiting for the penne to cook, cut up bell peppers, cocktail onions and tear up the lettuce. Place them all in a large, wide pasta bowl

• Break up the tinned pink salmon and add to the salad

• Toss in cooled penne and zucchini.

• Serve immediately