Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

elbow macaroni: 3 cups
peppers: 1 each of red, orange, yellow & green chopped
cucumber: 1 large or 2 small peeled and chopped
onion: 1 medium finely chopped
garlic: 1 or 2 cloves finely chopped
sliced black olives: 100gms
olive oil: 2 tbsp
cheddar cheese grated: 1/2 cup
salt: 2 tsp or to taste
sugar: 2 tsp
lime juice: 2 fresh squeezed
tomato ketchup: 2 tbsp
for seasoning: dried basil and oregano , fresh ground pepper

Method:

1. Mix chopped veggies, onion, garlic & olives.
2. Mix lime juice, sugar and salt separately
3. Boil pasta with a little salt and olive oil & drain. While it is still hot, add the rest of the olive oil, grated cheese, lime juice-sugar-salt mixture, ketchup and mix well.
4. Add the veggies and seasoning and mix again.