Basically you use your favorite pasta salad recipe or toss together random ingredients - but do so using low carb options.
- pasta - low carb/sugar free only
- fresh broccoli
- fresh cauliflower
- red pepper
- fresh lettuce
- cabbage shreds
- green onion
- cucumbers
- mushrooms
- cheese - mozzarella or feta with Italian or ranch
- cheese - cheddar if using ranch or plain mayonnaise
- basil
- dressing - Italian style or ranch style within your personal carb counts for the day
- black or green olives, red onion, yellow or orange peppers, fresh spinach, etc. (watch your carb counts and likes/dislikes)
Do not use high carb veggies like yellow onion, peas, corn, potato or carrots. Use just a bit of tomato if you wish - it's higher carb or some artichoke hearts (not many - higher carb).
Mix and chill. Serve cold.
I love broccoli and red pepper in my pasta salads. I'm not a fan of tomato, but we had one to use up and my husband loves fresh tomato so I added it. My feta was in the freezer but I had cheese sticks in the fridge so I grabbed a couple mozzarella sticks to cut up this time. Easy peasy. After some italian style dressing (sugar free and keto) I added some fresh basil. We didn't have any cucumbers
Here is what they look like after they are cooked. Yum!
