Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies

Various pasta or noodle salads is something totally unusual to the place where I can from.

But ever since I tried one, I am totally in love (my fitness-geeky-trying-to-be-conscious self is a bit less so, but sometimes it needs a break too).

This salad comes with a nice pack of veggies: tomatoes, bell peppers, corn. If you use whole wheat noodles and close your eyes on cheese and mayo we can almost call it healthy, right?

Fusilli or elbow pasta will work good here, other types may work too (okey, maybe be not spaghetti, but I think that is obvious). Tri-color pasta will make salad more festive, give it try if you need more color in your life…

Ingredients:

  • 8-10oz pasta
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 2 bell peppers
  • 8oz canadian bacon
  • 8oz canned corn
  • 1-1.5 cups of Italian blend shredded cheese
  • Ground black pepper to taste
  • Salt to taste
  • Mayo to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 1
  2. Bring a pot with water to boil, salt to taste and cook pasta until desired tenderness, once cooked drain water, rinse with cold water and set aside to cool down:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 2
  3. Remove seeds from bell peppers and slice them, move them to a big mixing bowl:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 3
  4. Dice tomatoes:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 4
  5. Add cooked pasta cooled down to room temperature:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 5
  6. Slice canadian bacon in stripes and add them to the bowl as well:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 6
  7. Drain water from cooked corn, add corn to the bowl:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 7
  8. Add shredded cheese:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 8
  9. Season with salt and ground black pepper to taste:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 9
  10. Dress with mayo to taste as well:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies: Step 10
  11. Mix and serve:
    Noodle Salad with Canadian Bacon and Veggies
Enjoy!