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.
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 have Italian pasta salad using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Italian pasta salad
- It's 1 box of tri colored pasta.
- Prepare 2 large of firm tomatoes.
- Prepare 1 can of Lg black olives.
- Prepare 2 bunch of broccoli.
- You need 1 of Italian dressing.
- It's 2 cup of cubed block cheese.
- Prepare 1 packages of pepperoni.
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
- In a large pot put water to boil about 3/4 full. Salt your water. While u wait prepare n chop ur veggies.
- You don't want to chopped to small or to big so I try & make em bout the same size as the pasta.
- 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..
- 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..
- 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.
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