Pasta Salad for Lunch This Week!

photo by Lalaloula


- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 24
- Serves:
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5
ingredients
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Pasta
- 1 1 lb fusilli or 1 lb farfalle pasta
- olive oil
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Day 1 - Mediterranean Pasta
- 1⁄2 cup canned chick-peas or 1/2 cup cooked chickpeas
- 1⁄2 cup arugula
- 1⁄4 cup crumbled feta
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
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Day 2 - Artichoke Almond and Parmesan Pasta
- 6 jarred artichoke hearts, chopped
- 2 tablespoons chopped roasted almonds
- 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
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Day 3 - Tuna Red Onion and Olive Pasta
- 1 (3 ounce) can tuna, drained
- 1⁄4 cup pitted kalamata olive
- 2 tablespoons chopped red onions
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
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Day 4 - Asian Pasta Salad
- 1 carrot, thinly sliced
- 1⁄4 English cucumber, diced
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 2 tablespoons chopped roasted peanuts
- 2 teaspoons low sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
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Day 5 - Chicken and Pesto Pasta
- 1⁄2 cup shredded chicken
- 1⁄4 cup prepared pesto sauce
directions
- Cook the pasta as per package instructions. Rinse in cold water and toss with a little olive oil. Refrigerate.
- For each day, whisk together the liquid ingredients, if there is more than one.
- Mix the remaining ingredients with 1 1/2 cup of the cooked pasta, then toss with the liquid ingredients.
- For the Chicken and Pesto version, I found that warming the pasta in the microwave just a bit helped it toss more evenly with the pesto. You do need to let it cool a bit before packing it up for your lunch.
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What the heck! I made this recipe pretty much as given, to & including spreading it out over 5 days (well, 4 really, but I've got the making for the 5th one tomorrow & since the first 4 have gone so deliciously well, I'm sure that one will, too)! Definitely a great way to work a recipe, & it IS a keeper for me! Thanks for sharing it! [Made & reviewed in 1-2-3 Hits recipe tag]!
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This is wonderful! It is so easy to prepare and tastes wonderful! I made the day 3 version using marinated tofu in place of tuna and a yellow onion instead of the red as thats all I had. Also I added in some garlic and pepper. It was so good, Ill certainly make it again. <br/>I had some leftovers and so the next day I added some tomato sauce to juicen them up a bit more and that was even better I thought.<br/>THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this keeper with us, Duonyte!<br/>Made and reviewed for 1-2-3-Hit Wonders June 2011.
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I do something very similar to this as well -- about once every two weeks I cook a big box of penne noodles and some sort of veggie (usually peas or broccoli) that I throw in during the last few minutes of boiling -- then we have it available in the fridge throughtout the weeks for quick lunches, sometimes we throw together alfredo, or just butter and parm cheese. So this group is a great way for me to get new ideas. Which I love. For today's lunch I had the mediterranean option, and this weeks pasta has peas in it so I left the arugula out, added a wee bit of mayo, red wine vinegar and some oregano! Mmmm! This was sooo good! Thanks for posting all these yummy options! :) [Made for 123 Hits]
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This is wonderful! It is so easy to prepare and tastes wonderful! I made the day 3 version using marinated tofu in place of tuna and a yellow onion instead of the red as thats all I had. Also I added in some garlic and pepper. It was so good, Ill certainly make it again. <br/>I had some leftovers and so the next day I added some tomato sauce to juicen them up a bit more and that was even better I thought.<br/>THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this keeper with us, Duonyte!<br/>Made and reviewed for 1-2-3-Hit Wonders June 2011.
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duonyte
United States
My screen name is a diminutive in Lithuanian for bread, so you won't be suprised to learn that I love to bake bread. In recent years I have been baking a lot of sourdough breads and have several starters sitting in my refrigerator. But I like to cook a lot of other things, as well, especially from various cultures. The cat wishes I would concentrate on meat and fish... I joined a few years ago but started posting recipes and participating in forums just recently - I wish I had done so earlier. Recipezaar is a great community! Right now I am a co-host for the Breads and Baking and the Eastern Europe forums - I hope to see you there!