Cold Pasta Salad RecipesHere is a delicious selection of Cold Pasta Salad Recipes. Some are ideal as a side-dish, others as a meal in themselves. For the most part, providing the pasta is already cooked, these dishes can be assembled quickly and easily. Leftover pasta salad also makes great lunchboxes for the office or for school. 
Because pasta is a bland base, you can make the sauces as rich and decadent as you like, or you can keep the salads light and fresh, using heaps of fresh vegetables and the minimum of pasta (good option if you are watching your waistline). Use short pasta which will keep its shape (spaghetti and linguine just don't work here!). Good choices are conchigilie (shells), farfalle (butterflies), fusille (screw shape), orecchiette (little ears) and rotelle (wheels). These are robust enough to take lots of chunky extras like vegetables or chicken. Tubular pastas, such as penne (pens), rigatone and maccheroni are good choices if you are adding lots of dressing or sauce - the sauce will find its way into the hollow tubes.
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