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.

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. You can cook Italian Pasta Salad using 9 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Italian Pasta Salad

Prepare 1 lb of pasta of choice, I used spirals.
It's of Kalamata olives, chopped.
Prepare of Mini pepperoni.
It's of Artichoke hearts, chopped.
It's of Cherry tomatoes, halved.
You need of Shredded cheese of choice.
You need of Salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, Italian seasoning(optional).
Prepare 1/2 cup of mayo.
You need 1/3-1/2 cup of Italian dressing.

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. Easy Italian pasta salad with homemade Italian dressing!

Italian Pasta Salad step by step

Boil your pasta in salted water. Drain. Mix all ingredients together and refrigerate..

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).