Summer time is the time for salads, cold dishes and all those solutions that whet the appetite, without getting hot or heavy. We bet everything on ham and melon, tomato and mozzarella, rice salads and … pasta. How to say no to the hold version of our favorite first course? We have collected the most refreshing ideas and the tastiest recipes to fully enjoy the pasta salad: a masterpiece of simple goodness.

Yes to fruit

When we prepare a pasta salad, we tend to consider the same ingredients that we usually choose for hot dishes. The result is always very good, but … we want to change a little. To take full advantage of the possibility of radically changing the recipe, inserting ingredients that are fried, crunchy and delicious: how about melon, watermelon, apricots, peaches and cherries? They go well with prawns, low-fat cheeses like feta, but also with diced ham.

crudaiola

One of the most consolidated pasta salads of our gastronomic tradition, it is simply prepared with a mixture of raw vegetables cut into small cubes, seasoned with extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper. Why not start from here to dare a little? We make our pasta salads special with finely chopped radishes, sliced ​​cucumbers, carrots and onion rings very thin.

Pasta, cold

One of the most important steps in this preparation is the cooling of the pasta which, after being drained, goes poured into a bowl, dressed with a little oil and mixed well. When it is now cold, it can be seasoned and then placed in the refrigerator until lunch or dinner. To avoid mistakes during these steps, be careful not to dress it when it is still warm or it will tend to cook the other ingredients by contact changing the consistency.

In the gallery above, 50 delicious pasta salads.