Noodle salad: all secrets and 2 options

How cute when we have a variety of ideas because many rich and healthy recipes come out like these. In this blog we love different, varied and beautiful salads for their ingredients, colors and flavors . Don't even think that today we are going to control with mixtures, nor that we are going to go for basic and simple flavors. Today we are going to make a noodle salad recipes to all or nothing , I hope they are ready and ready for what is coming.

I love that we start these recipes with great emotion, because the kitchen is also that, right? A lot of attitude and love of each recipe. Let's see how many salads we can think and in the end we vote between all which we liked the most.

About the noodle salad

How to cook the perfect paste in 5 steps

First and first of all, it is necessary to clarify how to cook noodles . These steps to cook pasta should be recorded because they are the essence of all these salads, and although we all know that the many times we make pasta salad we use noodles that were left over from another cooking, it will be much better if we make sure that it is at the dente. Here I leave you 5 tips to achieve perfect cooking:

1 - Water would already have to be boiling 

Take note: Water to cook the noodles has to be very hot, without exceptions. Then, before entering the kitchen they already put the water to heat, do not forget it. And the salt is placed once the water already boiled.

What do I do if the noodles are sticking? Nothing, let them kill them! A jokes! A joke to give way to point number two.

2 - Give the necessary space to the noodles

The noodles are that toxic couple who asked you to give you space for fear of love, the only difference is that this pasta only has love to give. Then we give him the space he deserves, for that we measure the water and control that the noodles is very comfortable in the pot.

• Every 100 grs of pasta - 1 liter of water.
• For each liter of water - 10 or 12 grs of salt.

Write it down. It is important.

3 - Put on the noodles

What noodles choose to prepare a salad? Great issue, and we already know how the market is, there are noodles for each type of person. What they intend is to dizzy, we do not know if Mostachol, Codito, Moñito or Rigatti, Express or Simple, of vegetables, trisabor or go for the one we have at the bottom of the cupboard for two months. Well, many options but we can't get carried away by anyone, we already talked about the love we were going to put this recipe.

For that reason, in this blog we always choose to choose the noodles that in your package says "100% Candeal wheat" , this is the best that can be achieved, if we talk about industrial noodles. It is much healthier, beautiful and also does not stick . Candeal wheat is a type of hard grain that has a wonderful peculiarity and is that it does not release all the starch like other noodles.

For a noodle salad we like to use the Tirabuzon noodle, in its particular way that helps the vegetables be entangled in their spirals.

4 - Oil is not necessary

They ignore that ancient myth that said that the oil in cooking the noodles was super necessary "so that it does not stick . No mommy, that does not exist, it is a myth, it is not true. It is not necessary to put oil to the noodles .

Some people say that the oil is put into cooking water so that that foam is not done when it boils and does not "overflow . Well but what cost? to check the same.

5 - Cooking time is fundamental

We follow the minimum suggested time in the package . Why? Because to make salads we need to be at the dente. With 6 minutes it would have to be enough. And remember that noodles keep cooking once the fire turned off. We want to get a pasta to dente , which retains its shape and has an ideal consistency for our salad.

The best way to know if noodles are already cooked is trying them. That many times the cooking time can vary by the type of pasta and there is no way to know.

How to make noodles salad

They pay attention that we will always follow the same scheme: 50% fresh vegetables or fruits - 25% protein - 25% carbohydrates (noodles) . Every salad needs a little wave as olive oil, salt, oregano, blah. We leave this to free choice. Making this type of salads is very easy, everything looks good create me: even the noodle salad with mayonnaise and some tomatoes is a show, but here I am going to get a little more creative and I will leave you two options of cold noodles that will love them:

Recipe 1: Moñitos noodles salad

1. Place the cooked bowls at the base of a salad bowl. They will occupy them 25% of the total salad. Above a splash of olive oil.
2. Then chop fresh vegetables such as carrots / tomato / purple onion and place them up. These must occupy 35% of the dish. On the one hand, add the preferably green as lettuce or cabbage occupying the other 15%. At this time add a pinch of salt. Mingle.
3. Finally, the remaining 25% will be occupied by a legume as a protein, in this case lentils.

Recipe 2: Mostacholes salad

1. Place green vegetables such as arugula or lettuce to free choice at the base of a salad bowl. Above chop cherry tomatoes and season with a pinch of salt 
2. In the medium add cheese cubes along with sunflower seeds or other cereal. And on the side the same amount of cooked pasta. Add a splash of olive oil and mix.
3. Finally, in a pan place some olive oil and brown small bread cubes. When they are crispy to add them to the salad. Chop olives and decorate the dish with these.