Who ever thought that Salads are just for people losing weight are surely mistaken.

Every once in a while I like to make a meal-time salad. When I want something not that heavy on the stomach, but also delicious and easy to make. This recipe is something I consider as a balanced meal, almost everything what you need is in it.

Ingredients: (for 1-2 person)
100-150gr of Pasta (Penne)
75-150gr of Greens (Lettuce, Arugula or any lettuce types)
200gr of Tomato (Cherry)
200gr or 20 pieces of Mini Mozzarella
250gr or 1 pack of Bacon bits
5-10gr of Pine nut
1 pinch of Salt
2tbls or 30ml of Honey
1 whole Lime
1 clove of Ginger

Take a pan large enough to cook the pasta in it. Fill the pan with enough water for cooking the penne. Average 1L per 100gr pasta. When the pan with water is boiling add the pasta and a pinch of salt. Cook for 20 min until it is ready. When ready drain the water from the pasta and set it aside.

While the pasta is cooking, take a frying-pan and heat it up. Once warm put the fire on low-heat and roast the pine nuts until golden. This takes just a few minutes. Set the roasted nuts aside and bake the bacon bits. I like my bacon to be a bit crunchy, so it take at least 5 minutes to have a crunchy outside and soft inside. When the bacon is ready drain the oil from the bacon and set it aside on a plate with a paper towel to absorb some of the fat still on it.

Wash the Greens and Tomatoes, fling of the water on the greens. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half. When done add everything in a bowl, the pasta, the greens, the tomatoes, the mini mozzarella, the bacon bits and the pine nuts. It is almost done, only the sauce or dressing left before tossing it. The salad or better shake the salad up.

The sauce is easy to make. Only the juice of the ginger is needed to give it a nice zing to the flavour, it’s optional.

Peel the ginger clove, grate the ginger in to pulp and sieve the juices out of the pulp. Take a sauce pan warm it up, add 2 tablespoons of Honey (add more if you like it sweeter or stickier), squeeze out the lime juice into the honey. Optional add ginger juice to the pan and stir the mix till it becomes fluid.

Now add the dressing to the Salad mix and mix it up so everything is drenched with the sweet, fresh and spunky sauce.

Serve immediately.