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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 20 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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An easy summer salad that you can be very creative with. Ingredients:
2 cups uncooked cheese tortellini, cooked as directed and cooled completely (i prefer butoni three cheese tortellini) |
1 cup or more of your favorite ceasar dressing (i like marie's, sold in the produce department) |
1 yellow pepper, chopped |
1 red pepper, chopped |
1/2 onion, finely diced |
1/2 cup fresh grated parmesan cheese |
Directions:
1. Cool the pasta completely after cooking, then pour over dressing and chopped peppers; mix all together.
2. Sprinkle top generously with parmesan cheese and cover bowl - refrigerate.
3. Just before serving, stir in the parmesan - serve over a bed of lettuce, if desired, or serve as is.
4. You can mix up the veggies any way you want for this, and you can try other cheeses, though I love parmesan with the ceasar dressing.
5. Try other dressing, too:
6. Greek version - to the cooked tortellini, add
7. 1 cup Greek dressing
8. 1 de-seeded cucumber
9. 3/4 cup diced, kalamata olives
10. 1/2 red onion, diced
11. 20 halved cherub tomatoes
12. 1 cup crumbled feta
13. Italian version - to the cooked tortellini, add
14. 1 cup Italian dressing
15. 1 cup sliced pepperoni or genoa salami chunks
16. 1/2 cup fresh grated parmesan cheese
17. 1/2 cup fresh pecorino romano cheese, and some
18. 1/2 sweet onion, diced
19. American version - to cooked tortellini, add
20. 1 cup Ranch dressing
21. 1 cup blue cheese crembles
22. 1/2 onion, diced
23. 1 red pepper, diced
24. Try whatever sounds good to you!! I want to try a caprese version with balsamic dressing and fresh basil and tomato chunks and mozzarella and some onion and garlic. There's so many options to make so many different tastes - all of them easy!!
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