Ingredients:

• Penne / fussili pasta – 150 gms (or about 1 cup), uncooked
• Red bell peppers- 1
• Yellow bell pepper – 1
• Salad tomatoes – 2
• Borocolli florets – 1 cup
• Asparagus stalks – 1/2 cup
• Pitted olives – a handful

      Ingredients for salad dressing

• Olive oil – 1/4 cup
• Lemon juice -of  a lemon
• Honey – 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper – a pinch
• Italian mixed spices  – 1 tbsp

        Note :- Parmesan cheese obtained in the super markets may not be vegetarian,         so please check before you buy the product. You can always skip this ingredient.

Procedure:

• Boil about 3/4th of a sauce pan with water. once the water comes to rolling boil then add a pinch of salt and the raw pasta and cook with lid covered for a minute. Remove the lid and cook the pasta for 5 minutes or until cooked.
• When the pasta is cooked remove from the heat, drain the water and keep aside.
• Chop the bell peppers and tomatoes in chunks or big squares. Trim the asparagus and slice the black olives. Separate the broccoli florets.
• Blanch the asparagus and broccoli (place them in boiling water for a minute or until tender and then drop them immediately in cold water so that it can retain its colour).
• In a mixing bowl, add all the ingredients for the dressing and whisk well until combined.
• Place the pasta , vegetables and olives in a big mix bowl and add the dressing and toss them together.

Serve the salad to Perumal and enjoy His Prasadam.