Tortellini Summer Salad Recipe

How to make it

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• Cool the pasta completely after cooking, then pour over dressing and chopped peppers; mix all together.
• Sprinkle top generously with parmesan cheese and cover bowl - refrigerate.
• Just before serving, stir in the parmesan - serve over a bed of lettuce, if desired, or serve as is.
• 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.
• Try other dressing, too:
• Greek version - to the cooked tortellini, add
• 1 cup Greek dressing
• 1 de-seeded cucumber
• 3/4 cup diced, kalamata olives
• 1/2 red onion, diced
• 20 halved cherub tomatoes
• 1 cup crumbled feta
• Italian version - to the cooked tortellini, add
• 1 cup Italian dressing
• 1 cup sliced pepperoni or genoa salami chunks
• 1/2 cup fresh grated parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup fresh pecorino romano cheese, and some
• 1/2 sweet onion, diced
• American version - to cooked tortellini, add
• 1 cup Ranch dressing
• 1 cup blue cheese crembles
• 1/2 onion, diced
• 1 red pepper, diced
• 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!!