Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, italian pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Italian Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Italian Pasta Salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
This Italian pasta salad features all the caprese ingredients and then some - mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, plus artichoke hearts and arugula. The arugula adds great color and freshness to the salad. I love to make it for a barbeque or as a cold lunch on a hot day.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have italian pasta salad using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Pasta Salad:
- Get 1 box multi-color pasta
- Take 1 bottle Kraft zesty Italian salad dressing
- Take Salt/ pepper
- Prepare 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
- Take 1 small can sliced black olives
- Prepare 1 package pepperoni
- Take 1 small red onion, minced
- Prepare 1 English cucumber cubed
- Prepare Any cheese cubed
- Make ready 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1 cup Cherry tomatoes, halves
- Get 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
- Make ready 1 pkg thick sliced Ham, cut into small cubes
To make this recipe quick and easy, I use a bottled Italian dressing but of course, homemade Italian Dressing is amazing if you have the ingredients on hand. Make ahead… The best thing about this pasta salad recipe is that it gets better as it sits and the flavors blend! Remember that the pasta will plump as it cooks, and you want pasta salad to have a generous combination of pasta and vegetables in each bite. For your next potluck or picnic, make a delicious and easy pasta salad.
Steps to make Italian Pasta Salad:
- 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
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