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.
Ingredients of Italian pasta salad
- Prepare 1 box of tri colored pasta.
- Prepare 2 large of firm tomatoes.
- You need 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.
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.
Watch me make this Italian Pasta Salad from start to finish! I'm blessed to have grown up in a pretty diverse Southern city. 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. Easy Italian Pasta Salad (copycat Suddenly Salad).
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