Cucumber Drum Salad
Ingredients
1 large cucumber
1 sweet red pepper
200g / 7oz can tuna
Juice of 1 small orange
1 tbspn. low calorie salad dressing
½ tspn. French mustard
100g / 4oz pasta wheels, cooked
Method
- Cut stripes of skin away from the cucumber with a canell or pointed knife
- Cut the cucumber into 5cm/2in. lengths and scoop out the centres, reserve the cucumber flesh, leaving drum shaped cases
- Deseed the pepper and cut it into fine strips, drain and flake the tuna, using the oil and juices to make a dressing with the orange juice, salad dressing and mustard, beating it well
- Chop the reserved cucumber and half the pepper strips, keeping back the best ones for the garnish
- Combine the pasta, chopped cucumber, pepper and tuna, arrange the cucumber drums on a serving platter.
- Pile up the filling inside them and pour over a little dressing, arrange pepper strips at each end of the dish
Note:
Good as a pasta slimming diet, this would serve 4 and each portion worth about 280 calories. Great as a starter or a light main course.