recipes for pasta and rice salads needed

[pipkins]

Just wondered if anyone had some recipes for pasta and rice salads.Trying to cut down on bread and would like ideas for salads that keep a couple of days in the fridge please.

most stock cubes have mono sodium glutamate in too kallo are best and do a great low salt veg stock cube
no msg in their ones either worth the extra 20/30p

Thanks everyone,they all sound great.
Can't wait to try them all!!

think i have a corination chicken recipe in an anabel karmel book is that the one you mean will look for it tom if it is pipkins goodnight !

Thanks Lunachic,night.

night night pipkins

Pipkins,sorry about not getting back earlier.

I am a big fan of chickpeas. They are wonderful in hot and cold dishes. My favourite salad at present is chickpeas,grilled red peppers,crumbled fetta,capers,fresh coriander and finely sliced red onion.

Tabbouleh is also great. Bulghur wheat (soaked and prepared according to packet-very easy) with finely diced cucumbers,tomatoes,spring onions and mint.

My top tip is never to buy bottled dressings. They are generally full of weird thickeners.Make up a big jar of your own-approx. 4 parts olive oil to 1 part vinegar or lemon juice,mustard,salt and pepper and crushed garlic. Just shake it before using it. Keep it in a bowl in the fridge as well as the dressing always seems to slide out from under the lid and leave a greasy ring.

Another fabulous one is boiled fresh beetroot (takes about 40 mins. Skin and slice thinly) with crumbled fetta,mint and dressing. Wonderful,but assemble literally seconds before serving as it 'bleeds' and be warned-it will give you pink poo!!!

yes big up the chickpeas here to
this week I have been mostly eating a salad of chickpeas, cucumber, raw red pepper and thinly sliced red radihses with black pepper and a lemon juice, redwine vinegar olive oil dressing

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