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 have Italian Pasta Salad using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Italian Pasta Salad

It's 1 box of multi-color pasta.
It's 1 bottle of Kraft zesty Italian salad dressing.
Prepare of Salt/ pepper.
It's 1/4 tsp of red pepper flakes.
You need 1 of small can sliced black olives.
It's 1 package of pepperoni.
It's 1 of small red onion, minced.
You need 1 of English cucumber cubed.
It's of Any cheese cubed.
It's 1/4 cup of grated Parmesan cheese.
You need 1 cup of Cherry tomatoes, halves.
You need 1/2 tsp of Italian seasoning.
It's 1 pkg of thick sliced Ham, cut into small cubes.

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. 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. 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 pasta until tender. Rinse with cold water. Be sure to do this, or your cheese will melt..
Drain off all water and add all ingredients to pasta. Pour over dressing and mix.
After you have mixed all ingredients, sprinkle Parmesan cheese over the top. Stir again and keep in fridge until ready. Stir again right before serving.

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!