Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pasta Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.
Now Choose From Multiple Easy Pasta Recipes To Create That Perfect Meal. Compare Prices on Salad Pasta in Kitchen & Dining. This light and refreshing cold pasta salad is loaded with the flavors of the Mediterranean, and pairs well with grilled proteins, such as fish, pork, chicken or steak. If you make this in advance, reserve a bit of the dressing to add right before serving, as the pasta has a tendency to soak up the dressing as it sits over time.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pasta salad using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta Salad:
- Get Box Rotini pasta
- Get broccoli florets
- Take grape tomatoes, halved
- Get cucumbers, seeds removed, diced fine
- Make ready roasted red pepper, diced
- Take Green onions, sliced
- Prepare large black pitted olives, sliced
- Get bottle, about 10 greek peppers, whole (peppercinis)
- Make ready colby cheese cubed
- Prepare pepper jack cheese cubed
- Prepare Or mozzarella pearls or shredded mozzarella
- Take ham steak cubed
- Take mini pepperonis
- Get Good Seasons Italian seasoning mix
- Prepare honey
- Take bottle olive garden creamy Italian dressing
- Prepare pesto
It's a real crowd-pleaser! —Norene Wright, Manilla, Indiana In a salad bowl, combine the pasta, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers and olives. Pour dressing over salad; toss and refrigerate overnight. Pasta Salad Pointer: To keep your salad moist, toss the cooked pasta in lemon juice and olive oil, then refrigerate overnight. Add protein, such as chopped deli chicken, boiled shrimp, or sliced grilled steak, to turn a quick pasta salad into a main-dish meal.
Steps to make Pasta Salad:
- Boil pasta according to directions and drain then run cold water over pasta to cool, drain again and set aside
- Put together entire ingredients into large mixing bowl (except the pasta and bottle dressing) turning to mix
- Add pasta and bottle dressing and turn in bowl with spatula until evenly coated, I also add some juice from the pepper jar
- Cover and place in fridge…at least 2-3 hours to marry the flavors Overnight is better
- After taking out of fridge, give it a toss and serve !! 😋
- I like to add a little grated parmesan or feta cheese on top maybe some sunflower seeds or bacon bits but that is completely optional ENJOY !!
- Double this recipe for several people 😋😋😋😋😋😋
Pasta Salad Pointer: To keep your salad moist, toss the cooked pasta in lemon juice and olive oil, then refrigerate overnight. Add protein, such as chopped deli chicken, boiled shrimp, or sliced grilled steak, to turn a quick pasta salad into a main-dish meal. Place the pasta salad ingredients in a bowl. Add the tomatoes, cucumber, mozzarella, salami, olives, and parsley. Pasta salads are a hit at potlucks and picnics or a simple weeknight meal.
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