How to Make Tasty Italian Pasta Salad
Italian Pasta Salad. Italian pasta salad is one of my favorite cold pasta salad dishes! Fresh and colorful vegetables, cheese, salami, and Italian vinaigrette are tossed with your favorite pasta to create an unforgettable. Pasta salad is truly as easy as boiling water and tossing in a few key ingredients.
Antipasto and pesto salads, creamy or tangy salads, and many more. Everyone always loves this cold Italian Pasta Salad recipe made with a simple homemade Italian dressing, rotini noodles, tomatoes, olives, mozzarella, pepperoni or hard salami, onion. How long does pasta salad with Italian dressing last? You can have Italian Pasta Salad using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Italian Pasta Salad
- It's Half of yellow bell pepper, diced.
- Prepare Half of orange bell pepper, diced.
- It's 1/2 cup of cucumbers, diced.
- You need 1/3 cup of red onion, diced.
- It's 8 oz of grape tomatoes, halved.
- You need 1 cup of Italian style finely shredded cheese.
- You need 1 (16 oz) of bag of tri-color rotini pasta.
- You need 1 cup of Italian dressing.
- It's to taste of Salt and pepper.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of italian seasoning.
Pasta salad with the dressing on it can be stored for later with no problems. Italian pasta salad is perfect for making ahead because it tastes even better on the second day, after the flavors have had time to meld together. I've included my favorite pasta salad ingredients in this. I was inspired to make this because I went on a Salami Bender* after the Salami Cream Cheese Roll I shared a couple of weeks ago.
Italian Pasta Salad instructions
- In a large pot, bring water to a boil and cook noodles according to directions on package.
- Drain noodles and rinse with cold water.
- Mix in all vegetables, seasonings, cheese, and dressing. Refrigerate leftovers!.
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