Pasta Salad (Recipe from Asian Food Channel)

An easy pasta recipe, only involves - leafing, dicing and mixing. Mr. Shu got the recipe from the Asian Food Channel website and he made it once for a function last year, nice! I love onions so much so we out of the blue decided to make it for dinner. It's resting in the refrigerator now hehehe.

In truth I only touched 30 % of the preparation. 70 % of the time I gave up dicing halfway, I only watched and took photos. Hehehehe. I got like this big problem getting my hands dirty...everytime I touch something I wash my hands. *pointless* No prizes for guessing the real chef lor. I didn't even watch the pasta being cooked, I was busy figuring out how to hold the mini-cleaver.

I didn't cut my fingers or anything, congratulate me. I can hear you guys laughing from wherever you are!!!!!!

Anyway, these are the ingredients (sounds like RC kan??).

• Orzo pasta (750 g) - cooked and cooled
• Cucumber (250ml) - cubed (we cubed 1.5 big cucumbers)
• 3 green onions - chopped (we used 4, I love onions ma)
• Feta cheese (187ml) - crumbled
• Black olive (125ml) - pitted and diced (didn't use, explain later)
• Olive oil (30ml or 2 tbs) (didn't use, explain later)
  
• 2 lemons (juice them)
• Fresh oregano - chopped (15ml or 1 tbs) (couldn't find it, so didn't use)
• Parsley - chopped (45ml or 3 tbs)
• Garlic - diced (5 ml)
• Pepper and salt to taste

Method

First, boil the pasta. Don't know how long it takes sorry. Then, Mr. Shu too lazy to chop parsley because he said damn difficult to chop, so he dumped the parsley and the garlic into the blender and blend!

Parsley and garlic (half a clove).

Blended parsley, cucumber, green onion and lemon. Not a significant photo, just for aesthetic purpose can?

Oh the pasta already boiled ka? Didn't realise it.

Ingenious. While draining the pasta, ice cubes were placed above it to cool them down.

Cubed cooling cucumbers (I love alliterations!).

Dicing the onions.

Toss them to the container!

Remember I said we didn't buy olives? Very expensive lah, plus we only needed a few. So we bought feta cheese packed with olives in them. We also didn't use olive oil since the cheese is probably preserved in olive oil (?).

The olives are not seedless...so I painstakingly cut the flesh open and peeled them off their seeds and got this...unappetizing look.

Make sure all olives are out. Use fork to crumble the feta cheese. Feta cheese originated from Greece (something I learnt from RC's daily food quiz).

Toss in the crumbled cheese and blended parsley-garlic combo.

Squeeze lemon. Add salt and pepper.

Use hands to mix thoroughly. Why doesn't this look as appetizing as the previous photo huh?

[ps] Actually kan, I baru discovered that lemon juice don't go well with skin! I felt stinging pain at the back of my fingers when the juice dripped...*ouchhh*

[update] OMG terlalu hot la!!! Too much onions. 2 should be enough.... /sweat