Cold pasta salad

We start the week with a cold pasta salad, a very easy and simple recipe to make. It is a perfect dish to prepare in summer, for a meal or quick dinner It's great, for pasta lovers it's great to eat it all year round.

It is very simple, so that it turns out well we have to be careful with the cooking of the pasta, it has to be just right, «Al dente». The other ingredients will depend on our tastes. To make the salad more attractive, it is very good to put colored pasta, the dressing can also be varied and put honey and mustard.

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Cold pasta salad

Author Montse

Recipe type: Starters

Rations: 4

Preparation time:  15m

Cooking time:  8m

Total time:  23m

Ingredients

• 1 package of pasta (macaroni, bows, shells, spirals ...)
• Lettuce leaves
• 2 hard-boiled eggs
• 2 cans of tuna
• Stuffed olives
• Crab sticks
• scallions
• Corn
• Cherry tomatoes
• Fresh cheese
• For the dressing:
• Oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.

Preparation

1. First we will boil the pasta, the time will be what you put in the instructions on the package or as you like. When it is, we remove it, strain it and pass it under the tap and thus cool it, reserve it.
2. In a large or individual plate, we put the washed lettuce leaves as a base or cut into pieces, we put the pasta and we put the other ingredients.
3. Cherrys tomatoes cut in half, tuna, olives, cut crab sticks, eggs cooked in pieces, a little corn if you like, onion and fresh cheese cut into pieces.
4. Mix the ingredients and dress the salad with oil, vinegar, salt and a little pepper.
5. You can combine the dressing with a little honey and mustard if you like, it gives a very good flavor.
6. The quantities of the ingredients will be to your liking.

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