Italian Pasta Salad
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Yields:
-
1 huge bowl
ingredients
- 12 -16 ounces rotelle pasta (or pasta shape of your choice)
- 6 green onions
- 3 stalks celery
- 1⁄2 head cauliflower
- 1 bunch broccoli
- 1 (8 ounce) bag carrots
- 3⁄4 cup black olives, sliced
- 1⁄2 cup green olives, sliced
- 1 1⁄2 cups hard salami, cubes
- 1 cup swiss cheese, cubes
- 1 cup cheddar cheese cube
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dressing
- 1⁄3 cup olive oil
- 1⁄3 cup red wine vinegar
- 3⁄4 teaspoon sweet basil
- 1⁄4 teaspoon oregano
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
directions
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process. Drain well and set aside.
- Slice onions, celery and carrots into bite sized pieces. Cut up broccoli and cauliflower into bite sized pieces, discarding stems.
- Mix dressing ingredients together. Set aside and do not chill dressing.
- Chill salad ingredients (except dressing) in refrigerator in separate plastic bags until 1/2 hour before serving time.
- One half hour before serving time, combine vegetables, olives, salami, cheese and pasta together in very large bowl. Drizzle dressing over all, toss to coat. Chill.
- If you like more dressing on your salad, you may want to up the dressing by 1/2 or double it.
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Reviews
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This was so good!! And when it says "huge bowl" it means it! I was going to a big family reunion type bar-b-q so I made the whole recipe, thinking that it'd fill up my biggest bowl......and it filled both my largest and my second largest bowls! But WOW good! Good thing I have another family thing to go to in a few days, I can get the second bowl eaten, it's just me and my husband here, so there's no way we'd eat that much on our own, awesome recipe!
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