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. So many tasty Italian pasta salads to choose from.

Pasta salad with the dressing on it can be stored for later with no problems. Pasta salad is truly as easy as boiling water and tossing in a few key ingredients. Just stick to this simple formula, cool the pasta correctly, and lean on this flavorful dressing every time you need to. You can cook Italian Pasta Salad using 9 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Italian Pasta Salad

It's 1 lb of pasta of choice, I used spirals.
You need of Kalamata olives, chopped.
It's of Mini pepperoni.
It's of Artichoke hearts, chopped.
You need of Cherry tomatoes, halved.
You need of Shredded cheese of choice.
It's of Salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, Italian seasoning(optional).
Prepare 1/2 cup of mayo.
It's 1/3-1/2 cup of Italian dressing.

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. 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. 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.

Italian Pasta Salad instructions

Boil your pasta in salted water. Drain. Mix all ingredients together and refrigerate..

I've included my favorite pasta salad ingredients in this. The Best Italian Pasta Salad Recipe, hands down. Your new go-to pasta salad for spring! Italian pasta salad is packing a punch of flavor with a homemade Italian dressing. This pasta salad is bursting with goodness - salami, pepperoni, mozzarella, tomatoes, spinach, and pepperoncini!