Pasta or rice salad suggestions please

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I have been asked to bring a pasta or rice salad to family buffet.
I am lacking inspiration - any suggestions very gratefully received - thanks

I'd cheat and get a couple of packs of savoury rice

yeah, that's what i've done before at my own do's, but i feel a bit like i should make a bit more of an effort at someone else's

Roast veg and harissa cous cous?

Pasta twists with mayo, tuna and sweetcorn always seems to go down well. Add a bit of finely chopped raw onion too if you like it.

Another easy one is pasta shapes with sundried tomatoes, olives, basil and chopped up salami/chorizo. Just use a bit of the oil from the sundried tomatoes for the dressing and some black pepper.

can that be made with rice? my grandparents are quite traditional in their tastes and i think cous cous might be a bit too 'out there' ... what is harissa? (am i being very dense?)

thanks basement, that sounds lovely.

Cook rice with a stock cube in the water (chicken or veg), add chopped coooked chicken, peppers, mushrooms, red onion etc

boil rice, meanwhile fry some oil in a pan and add some frozen oriental stirfry mix add any extra mushrooms, peppers or sweetcorn if disired maybe onion. Add a can of chopped tomatoes simmer then mix in rice. Salt and pepper and alow to cool. yummy

Really easy tasty rice salad. Cook rice, add tumeric (half teaspoon) to cooking water to turn rice yellow. Drain and cool. You want the rice just done with a tiny bite, otherwise this will be sludge.

Dice cucumber, a red pepper and get some sultanas. I dont know how much you are making, maybe two peppers if its for a lot of people and half a cucumber diced, a cup of sultanas. Half that for less.

Then mix some olive oil, lemon juice 2:1, crushed garlic to taste, some salt and pepper. Shake up the dressing. Add the dressing and the rest to the cold rice and mix well. Taste to see if it needs more salt/pepper. Delicious!