Ina Garten's Crunchy Noodle Salad Is Full of Vegetables and Has an Easy Sauce With 'Great Flavor' - Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Ina Garten has an easy pasta salad recipe with a delicious sauce and bright crisp vegetables. The Barefoot Contessa star shared a couple of tricks to take the dish to the next level. Ina Garten and Willie Geist | Mike Smith/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Ina Garten's crunchy noodle salad recipe is so easy to make Garten demonstrated how to make her crunchy noodle salad recipe on an episode of Barefoot Contessa . She explained the easy dish is made "with lots of Asian spices." The Barefoot Contessa star started by boiling a pot of salted water and cooking thin spaghetti. Once cooked, she drained the pasta and set it aside. "I actually like thin spaghetti for it," she explained. "It seems to absorb the flavor the best." In another pot, Garten boiled salted water and added sugar snap peas, cooking them for 3 to 5 minutes until crisp tender. She moved the peas to a bowl of ice water to stop the cooki...