Sides, sauces & preserves

Pasta dish

From
Rósa G.

Ingredients

Salad

  • 500 g cooked peeled prawns (shrimp)1 lb cooked peeled prawns (shrimp)
  • 6 dl pasta spirals (fusilli), cooked2½ cups pasta spirals (fusilli), cooked
  • 4 tbsp leek, chopped
  • 8 tbsp bell pepper, chopped
  • 6 grapes, halved
  • 2 tbsp parsley, chopped
  • crushed pineapple, drained
  • 3 kinds of cheese, e.g. Brie, in cubes
  • iceberg lettuce, shredded
  • nuts

Dressing

  • 1 dl mayonnaise½ cup mayonnaise
  • ½ dl oil3½ tbsp oil
  • 3 tbsp lemon juice
  • a little curry powder
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed

Light dressing

  • 1 tub sour cream (one tub (about 180 g))
  • 1 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 3 tbsp lemon juice
  • a little AB-mjólk (Icelandic cultured milk; use plain runny yoghurt or buttermilk)
  • a little curry powder
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed

Method

  1. Cook the pasta spirals according to the packet, rinse in cold water and drain well.
  2. Mix the pasta, prawns, leek, bell pepper, grapes, parsley, pineapple and cheese together.
  3. Whisk together the dressing (or the light dressing), with the garlic crushed, and fold it through the salad.
  4. Serve on shredded iceberg lettuce, scattered with nuts.

Notes

  • Serve with toast.
  • The light dressing can be used instead of the regular one.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Pastaréttur
(Rósa G.)
Salat: Salat: 500gr. Rækjur - 6dl. soðn. pastaskrúfur 4msk. sax blaðlauk 8 - söx. papr. - 6 vínber skorin 2msk Steinselja - Ananaskurl 3teg. ostur (Brie) í bitum Iceberg + hnetur
Sósa: Sósa: 1dl majó + 1/2 dl. olía 3msk. sítrsafi - Smá karrý 1 hvítlauksrif.
Dietsósa: Dietsósa: 1dós sýrð. Rjómi 1msk. majones - 3msk. sítr. safi smá abmjólk - smá karrý 1 hvítlauksrif
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