Cooking Recipe Pasta Salad With Pineapple-Mint Salsa

Recipe Ingredients

1 lb Mostaccioli or Ziti
-OR other medium pasta
-shape, uncooked
1 sm Cucumber
8 Fresh strawberries; washed, hulled and finely chopped
2 tb Coarsely chopped fresh mint
2 c Finely diced pineapple
-(fresh)
1/4 ts Salt
1/2 c Low fat yogurt
1/4 c Non-fat sour cream
1/4 c Orange juice
1 tb Brown sugar or honey

Directions

Prepare pasta according to package directions. While pasta is
cooking, peel the cucumber, trim the ends and cut it in half
lengthwise. Scoop out the seeds with a spoon and cut the cucumber
into 1/4-inch pieces.

Combine the cucumber, strawberries, pineapple and salt in a small
bowl and stir until blended. (This salsa can be made and refrigerated
up to one day in advance.)

In a small bowl, mix together yogurt, sour cream, orange juice and
brown sugar or honey.

When pasta is done, drain well and rinse under cold water. Drain
again and transfer to a mixing bowl. Add the yogurt mixture and mix
well. Toss in the fruit salsa, season to taste and serve.

Each serving provides: 904 Calories; 31.1 g Protein; 184 g
Carbohydrates; 4.5 g Fat; 0.5 mg Cholesterol; 176 mg Sodium. Calories
from Fat: 5%

Copyright National Pasta Association (http://www.ilovepasta.org)
(Reprinted with permission)

Categories matching this recipe

Pasta ,Low ,Salads ,Main dish ,fat