Tell me your vegetarian pasta salad recipes

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I need to make one to take to a party this weekend. Mine are normally chicken or tuna based, but we have a couple of veggies. Any suggestions?

A couple of options:

• normal pasta with lots of crunchy veg (carrots, peppers, cucumbre, spring onions etc.) plus chick peas, cherry tomatoes and walnuts or mixed seeds, all dressed with olive oil and a little balsamic vinegar.
• ditto above but with cubes of smoked tofu in. This tends to work better with rice though.
• cold tortellini (with spinach and ricotta or 4 cheeses filling) with lots of crunchy veg and tomatoes. A few sunflower seeds sprinkled over go well as well. Ditto dressing as above.

With roasted vegetables eg pepper, aubergine, red onion and courgette.

pasta swirls or bows, cooked and cooled. add pesto, sun dried tomatoes and green olives, very posh looking, always goes, and the pesto keeps it moist so it's still good for lunch the next day