Easy Italian Pasta Salad
Easy Italian pasta salad!! this simple pasta salad recipe has rotini, fresh mozzarella, onions, piccolo tomatoes, olives and salami in it. it is drenched in the best homemade Italian dressing ever. It is a great side for all summer occasions.
Servings: 4
Equipment
- Salad bowl
Ingredients
- 2 cups uncooked rotini Pasta
- 11/2 cups Piccolo tomatoes
- 1 cup Mozzarella cut into cubes
- ½ cup Olives cut in halves
- ⅓ cup red onions chopped use more if desired
- 90 g Salami chopped
- ⅓ cup homemade italian dressing use more if desired
- 1 tbsp parsley chopped
Instructions
- Cook the pasta in salted water (use about 2 tsp of salt) till aldente. I recommend you cook it a minute longer than recommended on the package. This should cook between 6 to 10 minutes depending on the brand of pasta you are using. Drain the pasta once cooked, add a little oil (about 1 tablespoon) this prevents the pasta from sticking.
- Add the pasta to a salad bowl then follow on with the rest of the ingredients. Add the Italian salad dressing and mix till well combined.
- Serve immediately or refrigerate and serve cold.
Notes
Tips:
Make sure you cook the pasta in salted water. Avoid using mushy pasta, for pasta salad, I would cook my pasta a minute longer than usual but still aldente.
Make this salad as light or main meal by pairing it with protein of choice like chicken, fish, beef or roasted vegetables.
I won’t say you should avoid store bought dressing, but if you could, try and make yours. Trust me it tastes way better than store bought.
Make this pasta salad vegetarian, omit the salami or any other type of meat used.
This pasta salad tastes better the next day