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Caesar Pasta Bowl
with Cucumber, Tomato, Red Onion, Meaty Bacon Bits, Caesar DressingA cool summer meal- cooked pasta chilled in the fridge, then just add your caesar dressing and toppings - fresh English cuke, fresh tomato, red onion, packaged meaty bacon bits, and parmesan cheese powder in a shaker. All the ingredients are easily found at your local grocery store, and some you can buy at your local Bulk Barn store in smaller quantity if your prefer; such as the pasta, meaty bacon bits, parmesan cheese powder, and parsley flakes. You can prepare your pasta before hand and just add your other ingredients on the day you plan to eat it.
In this article post, we'll look at an easy recipe for Caesar Pasta Chilled
Selecting Our Ingredients
Pasta is an affordable food to buy, and really easy to prepare. There are lots of pasta types to select from: penne, rotini, elbow, or a mixture of your favourite ones also works. For this bowl I cooked what I had on-hand; penne and elbow macaroni; along with the other ingredients - tomato, cucumber, red onion, meaty bacon bits, parmesan cheese shaker, caesar dressing, and parsley flakes for garnish. The combination of vegetables selected will give a cool crunch to our pasta bowl while adding some nice flavour and appeal.
Prepare Our Ingredients
Pasta is easy to cook. Get your pan of water boiling; add some salt as you like (1/8 tsp for myself, you can add as you prefer), then cook the pasta for about 8 mins, stirring as it boils. Once cooked, rinse under cold water in a colander, then into the pasta bowl. If your not eating right away, you can add it to a covered container and into the fridge, where it is good for at least a few days. Otherwise, chill the pasta bowl for at least 15 mins in the fridge, or 8 mins in the freezer. Then add the the caesar dressing to your pasta bowl and mix it to coat all your pasta. I add at least a tablespoon of dressing for every cup of cooked pasta. Next, we add the toppings.Caesar Pasta Bowl Toppings
After the dressing has been added, we sprinkle meaty bacon bits over the pasta and mix it in. Next, slice your English cuke into rather slim pieces and arrange them around the bowl's edge. Then cut your tomato in half, and simply cube one half of it into 4 chunks. Place them around the edges, spaced from each other. The red onion is our next ingredient, just slice a couple of slices and arrange them moreso in the middle of the pasta bowl atop the pasta. Next, we can sprinkle a 1/2 teaspoon of parmesan cheese powder over the veges and pasta. Lastly, we can garnish with a 1/4 teaspoon of parsley flakes.
Easy to Make, Inexpensive And Nutritious
Casear pasta bowl topped with cucumber, tomato, red onion, meaty bacon bits, parmesan cheese powder, and parsley flakes, provides a quick and nutritious meal you can eat for lunch or supper, and because the pasta is served chilled, it makes a great meal for a hot summer day.Nutrition
Lots of good nutrition included with this bowl, iron and good carbs from the pasta; and the cuke vitamins b1, b2, b3, b5, b6, folic acid, vitamin C, iron, calcium , zinc, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium. Tomato has lycopene, beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin K, calcium, magnesium, potassium. Parmesan cheese provides calcium, and is a complete protein source. And, onions, a very good source of vitamin C, aiding in iron absorption and, collagen production. Not to mention, they add loads of flavour to almost any dish.
Getting Your Daily RDAs
To get a good portion of your daily protein, go for about a half to three quarter cup of uncooked pasta per serving, which gives you enough for a cooked serving. A serving is considered to be 1 cup of cooked pasta. So, per serving: 1 cup cooked pasta - you'll get 7g protein, 2g fiber, 40g carbs, 0g sodium, 0g cholesterol, 1g fat, (0 saturated fat, and 0 trans fat). If eating 2 cups of cooked pasta, you'll consume 14g protein, which is very similar to a serving of meat, like chicken. Adults should consume from 40g to 70g, on average of protein per day, it depends on your body weight. The more you weigh, the more protein you should consume, and ideally, over the course of your two main meals.
If your watching your carbs, you may opt for one serving of pasta, and adding some protein to your pasta bowl, like grilled chicken, or fresh chicken breast. The addition of a skinless meat like grilled chicken burger, can top your protein for the meal, while keeping your carbs in check.
Pasta also contains other nutrients we require daily and just one serving(1 cup cooked) gives us these daily allowance amounts(RDA): 47% -thiamin(b1), 30% -folate(b9), 20% -riboflavin(b2), 19% -Niacin(b3), 10% - iron. Fiber is also obtained from eating pasta. And, eating a whole grain type of pasta can also give you additional fiber, with a serving of regular pasta giving us 2 grams while whole grain pasta provides around 4g per serving.
Enjoy!
Recipe Ingredients
1 cup uncooked pasta (1 cup uncooked per serving)
1 lg red tomato, 1/2 of cut into 4 chunks
8-11 slices English cuke
3 slices red onion
1/4 cup meaty bacon bits
1 - 2 tablespoons of Caesar dressing per 1 cup cooked pasta
1/2 teaspoon parmesan cheese powder
1/4 teaspoon parsley flakes
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