pasta salad

postingalwaysposting

ohh thanks all some rgreat ideas here, i will do a test run today i think... it would be nice to have a home made dish

lynzpower

I cant eat a lot of pasta in the daytime, more than a few spoonfulls sends me off to sleep!

I experimented last summer with the mini pastas that you get for soup making with roasted veg & tomato sauce. this worked much better for me thatr standard pasta bows as it was more veggie based than pasta based IYSWIM
and not as heavy.

For this I used 1/4 bag of mini pasta shapes (these are about 25p a bag in tescos)
pack of tescos passata ( 27p)

onion, halved mushroom, courgette, pepper whatever I had in basically ( butternut squash was good too!) lobbed in a bit of oil in a pyrex in a med- hot oven with sliced garlic

cooked the pasta, drained it , added that to the roasted veg and mixed in the pack of passata.

this fridges well for a couple of days too, reheats in the micro, or good for picnics, cold salad type affair. thanks for reminding me, Ill make some of this this week!

Melissa177

A tasty cold pasta dish is:

Cold cooked pasta
Teaspoon of pesto
Sliced roast chicken
Olives
Sun dried tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
Raw broccolli florets
Feta cheese (opt)

pavlovs_dog

bear in mind that a tomato based sauce will stain a tuppaware container a funny shade of organe

charlies_mum

I cook the pasta, let it cool and then mix it with a tin of tuna, add salad and salad cream or coleslaw - lovely

pavlovs_dog

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

bear in mind that a tomato based sauce will stain a tuppaware container a funny shade of organe

just read back through the thread and realised that i'd invented a new colour :rotfl: for whose who didn't manage to decipher my incoherant ramblings, 'organe' should actually read orange :rotfl:

Spendi

arabiandesert wrote: »

for a cold pasta dish, i cook the past, then when it's cold mix it with mayonnaise, cooked, sliced chicken breast, sweetcorn and onions. if i want a spicy dish then i add curry or chilli powder to the mayo

I do this too !
But its nice warmed up

mossstar

We quite often have pasta lunch boxes! I fry up some mushrooms, onion and anything else lying around (or just those if that's all i have) and then mix with cooked cold pasta and some vinaigrette, or if we're flush, some pesto.... mmmmmmmmm

Melissa177

Aldi is great for things like sundried tomatoes, pesto, olives, artichokes etc - all very cheap and really good quality!

savingsara_2

I don't think this would work hot because of the cucumber, but it's lovely cold.....

200g pasta
375g salsa dip (mild or hot, whichever you prefer)
200g sweetcorn, drained
quarter of a cucumber, diced

if you don't like cucumber you could add chopped pepper or tomato

Just cook the pasta, drain, rinse thoroughly then drain again.
Add above ingredients, mmmmm.....

4-6 portions and it's low fat