Italian pasta salad ideas

Italian pasta salad. Italian pasta salad is one of my favorite cold pasta salad dishes! 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. Pasta salad is truly as easy as boiling water and tossing in a few key ingredients.

Pasta salad with the dressing on it can be stored for later with no problems. The Best Italian Pasta Salad Recipe, hands down. Your new go-to pasta salad for spring! You can cook Italian pasta salad using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Italian pasta salad

1. You need 1 box of tri colored pasta.
2. Prepare 2 large of firm tomatoes.
3. It's 1 can of Lg black olives.
4. Prepare 2 bunch of broccoli.
5. You need 1 of Italian dressing.
6. It's 2 cup of cubed block cheese.
7. Prepare 1 packages of pepperoni.

Italian Pasta Salad is an easy, flavorful side dish with veggies, pepperoni, cheese and Italian dressing. Make for parties, potlucks and backyard barbecues. One of my favorite things about this salad is that. This zesty recipe combines vegetables and pasta in a creamy dressing.

Italian pasta salad instructions

1. In a large pot put water to boil about 3/4 full. Salt your water. While u wait prepare n chop ur veggies.
2. You don't want to chopped to small or to big so I try & make em bout the same size as the pasta.
3. Slice olives in half, dice tomatoes, cut pepperoni into fourths, cube cheese about 1x1 squares, chop stems off broccoli & rinse. Brake apart into tiny bite size pieces..
4. By this time water shud be boiling. Add pasta and boil about 8-10 min or till pasta is al-dente. U DO want it firm & cooked all the way. U DON'T want it falling a part..
5. When ready drain pasta and rinse with cold water. This is important!! Or your pasta will taste bitter. After pasta is cooled ad all ingredients plus the dressing am mix together. Chill for 30 min in the fridge b4 serving.

Refreshing and filling, this change-of-pace salad is perfect as a side dish. 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. I could never be a food magazine editor. Pasta - This pasta salad is designed to use tri color rotini pasta for a classic look and color, but you can use any type of pasta that you like. Italian salami - One of the main reasons for this cold pasta.