Quick & Delicious Cold Pasta with Canned Tomatoes

• 200 grams Pasta
• 1/2 can Canned diced tomatoes (or canned whole tomatoes)
• 2 tbsp Olive oil
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice (you can use vinegar as a substitute)
• 2 cm Prepared garlic paste in tube (or 1 teaspoon grated fresh garlic)
• 1 Salt and pepper
• 2 leaves Basil (if available)
• 1 Cured ham (or roast ham)
• 1 for garnish, if available Pea shoots

1. While the pasta is boiling add the ingredients to a bowl, mix, and chill in the refrigerator.
2. (Or, if you'd been storing your canned diced tomatoes at room temperature, chill in the freezer.)
3. For the sauce, the lemon juice is optional since the tomatoes are acidic on their own.
4. You could also finely chop the basil and then sprinkle it on top later.
5. (I don't like the taste of fresh basil so I just use it as a bit of flavoring.
6. You don't have to add it.)
7. Rinse off the pasta in cold water to cool it off, then chill in ice water.
8. Once the pasta is chilled, remove the ice and drain.
9. Transfer the pasta to a serving dish and top with the sauce.
10. If you're feeling lazy, you can just add the pasta to the bowl of sauce.
11. Top with cured ham and pea shoots for garnish.
12. It's done.
13. If you don't like cured ham you can substitute with canned tuna, or roast ham, although you'll need a knife for that.

pasta, tomatoes, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt, basil, ham, pea shoots

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/153353-quick-delicious-cold-pasta-with-canned-tomatoes (may not work)