Recipe: Tasty Italian Pasta Salad

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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.

Italian Pasta Salad Just stick to this simple formula, cool the pasta correctly, and lean on this flavorful dressing every time you need to. How long does pasta salad with Italian dressing last? Pasta salad with the dressing on it can be stored for later with no problems. You can cook Italian Pasta Salad using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Italian Pasta Salad

  1. Prepare Half of yellow bell pepper, diced.
  2. It's Half of orange bell pepper, diced.
  3. Prepare 1/2 cup of cucumbers, diced.
  4. You need 1/3 cup of red onion, diced.
  5. Prepare 8 oz of grape tomatoes, halved.
  6. Prepare 1 cup of Italian style finely shredded cheese.
  7. You need 1 (16 oz) of bag of tri-color rotini pasta.
  8. Prepare 1 cup of Italian dressing.
  9. Prepare to taste of Salt and pepper.
  10. Prepare 1 teaspoon of italian seasoning.

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. 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

  1. In a large pot, bring water to a boil and cook noodles according to directions on package.
  2. Drain noodles and rinse with cold water.
  3. Mix in all vegetables, seasonings, cheese, and dressing. Refrigerate leftovers!.

I could never be a food magazine editor. The Best Italian Pasta Salad Recipe, hands down. Your new go-to pasta salad for spring! The secret to getting the perfect texture in this Italian pasta salad is to overcook the noodles to well beyond the al dente (or "to the tooth") we've long been taught to strive for. Italian pasta salad is packing a punch of flavor with a homemade Italian dressing.