Salmon pasta salad

Children can help make this colourful salad

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30 minutes
Serves 4
1.5 of 5 a day

Nutrition: Per serving

Kcal276
Fat8.8g
Salt0.41g
Sugar4.9g

Recipe by: Mixer | Eat Move Learn cook

A pasta salad is an easy packed lunch or picnic lunch you can throw together. We’ve used salmon, sugar snap peas and rocket here but you can use any ingredients you like – tuna, sweetcorn, tomatoes, roasted vegetables.

This recipe is from our Eat Move Learn programme helping kids to eat healthily and stay active.

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Ingredients

350g wholewheat pasta
150g sugar snap peas
1 x 210g can salmon, drained
280g cherry tomatoes, chopped in half
100g rocket leaves
1/2 lemon, zest and juice
4 tablespoons reduced-fat crème fraîche

Method

Ask an adult to help you boil some water in a saucepan. Then cook the pasta by following the instructions on the packet.
Add the sugar snap peas to the water 2 minutes before the pasta is cooked.
When the pasta is ready, drain it using a colander or sieve. Then place it under cold running water to cool the food down, then drain again.
Put the pasta, sugar snap peas, salmon and rocket leaves in a large mixing bowl and mix together with two forks.
In a separate bowl, make the dressing by mixing the zest and juice of half a lemon with the crème fraîche.
Tip the dressing onto the pasta salad and gently mix the ingredients with the forks. Enjoy your easy-peasy pasta salad.