The scorching heat, the little desire to bake, fry and engage in long cooking. But hunger remains! So, before cooling off with a nice ice cream, cold pasta is the ideal dish to bring taste, color and lightness to the table. Depending on your preference, you can prepare it with vegetables, meat, fish, with many different formats such as spaghetti, mezze penne, ditalino, trenette and many others, but the important thing is to obtain the right consistency.

Cold pasta, the mistakes to avoid

The most common mistake is in fact to make it dry during cooling, until being forced to add oil, obtaining a more greasy dish than necessary. To avoid this, it is essential to gently drain the pasta, blocking cooking under a light jet of cold water if it needs a lot of rest. For safety then, it is advisable to keep a cup of cooking water, to leave to cool and possibly use for dilute an excessively thick dressing (such as those based on pesto).

Our 50 cold pastas

Here then are ours cold pasta recipes with peppers, with shrimp with quick pesto and mint, with marinated crudités, with blueberries and currants, true cold pasta, cold pasta salad, cold pasta with rocket pesto, with anchovies, cold pasta with ricotta pesto, with cherry tomatoes, oregano, mozzarella, cold Mediterranean pasta, with tuna sauce, cold pasta with prawns, cold pasta exotic, cold aromatic pasta, with olive pesto, cold pasta with grilled vegetables, spicy, cold pasta with fish, sformat of cold pasta with vegetables, with vegetables and aromatic herbs, pasta salad, cold peppers snails, short pasta with rocket and baby squid, pasta salad with three colors, with peppers and zucchini, cold half sleeves with mixed vegetables, cold lasagna and vegetable pie, cold butterflies with peppers, shells with cold bean sauce, salad of pasta and sword, Cold "gnocchi" with tuna, cold feathers with robiola, spicy cold tiles, cold butterflies in spicy sauce, cold propellers with plums and tuna, cold sedanini in egg sauce, cold butterflies and double pesto beans, pasta salad with pickles and rocket, pasta salad, mango and bresaola, chicken salad with pasta and eggs, pasta salad curry, pasta salad with vegetables and salami, Saracen tagliolini in salad, salad of scratchers and salmon, orecchiette salad, cold paccheri stuffed with squid, cold pipes with zucchini, cold shells, sword and zucchini and ditalini salad, fusilli salad with lobster.