Insalata di pasta con carciofi e surimi
Pasta salad with artichokes and surimi crab sticks
Pasta salad with artichokes and surimi crab sticks is easy-to-do, low-fat and low-calorie recipe ideal for summer days and buffet all year. It's a recipe of ours whose ingredients are: good-quality pasta, surimi crab sticks, canned artichokes, fresh onion, parsley, chives and olive oil.
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- 140 g (5oz) short pasta
- 1 400 g (14 1/4oz) can artichokes, sliced
- 90 g (3 1/4oz) surimi crab sticks
- 1 40 g (1 1/2oz) young fresh onion
- 1 tablespoon chives
- 1 tablespoon parsley
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Salt
- Time:
preparation: 10 minutes
cooking: 20 minutes
total: 25 minutes - Difficulty:
easy recipe - Nutrition Facts (amount per serving):
Calories: 390 (kCal) 20 % GDA (*) - 1632 (kJ)
Protein: 13.0 (g) 26 % GDA
Total fat: 13.3 (g) 20 % GDA
Total carbohydrate: 54.8 (g) 21 % GDA
Sugars: 9.0 (g) 10 % GDA
The recipe of pasta salad with artichokes and surimi
Prepare the ingredients to combine with pasta. Drain the artichokes, slice them and slice the onion and fish too. Put all these ingredients in a bowl and add the aromatic herbs. Pour in the olive oil and stir.
Cook the pasta. Bring to the boil a large pot of salted water and cook pasta al dente stage according to the instructions on the package or our instructions. Drain the pasta and run under cold water in order to stop cooking, drain again.
The last step. Transfer the pasta into the bowl and stir.
Your dish is ready!
Note
- - This is a very simple and quick pasta salad; a tasty dish for your family in summer. You can prepare it for a buffet too!
- - You can prepare it in advance; chill until serving but remember to serve it at room temperature for the best taste. It's enough to remove it from the fridge an hour before serving.
- - Look at the photo. The pasta we used is made with kamut flour but you can use the pasta you prefer. Read more ...
- - What are the most important rules to make a tasty pasta salad? Read more ...
Healthy eating
- - Pasta salad is a dish rich in ingredients and so it is necessary to calculate the right amount of everything we use not to exceed calories, fat and sugars.
- - Daily menu. Pasta salad with artichokes and surimi crab sticks has a right amount of calories, fat, protein, carbohydrate. Complete your meal with raw or cooked seasonal vegetable if you are still hungry (dressed with half a tablespoon of olive oil) and fruit.
We remember pasta should be eaten preferably at lunch and the calories eaten at lunch should be 500 - 700 (30 - 35% of energy needs for an adult if his daily needs are about 2000 calories and he correctly divides his calories into 5 micro-meals).
Here are the doses per head: 70 g (2 1/2oz) pasta, 100 g (3 1/2oz) canned artichokes, 45 g (1 1/2oz) surimi crab sticks, aromatic herbs, onion and one tablespoon olive oil. - - Special occasion menu. Don't worry about fat, calories, sugars ... it happens rarely, doesn't it?
- - As you can see it's a tomato-free recipe, ideal for people intolerant or alergic to tomatoes.
- - If you want to drink a glass of beer as we suggest below remember you have to add about 34 kCal per 100 ml.
- - If you want to know more about Italian pasta and its nutrition value read this page.
- - We remember you our original home recipes can be made without salt; there is a combination of flavours that substitutes salt. Other salt-free recipes ...
What's the right wine ?
Our suggestion is: a glass of good beer for the presence of artichokes.
The author Loretta Sebastiani lives in Italy (IT)
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