Amanda's 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 dish for just about any summer occasion. How long does pasta salad with Italian dressing last?

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 or similar. Creamy Italian Pasta Salad, the perfect Summer Pasta recipe made with fresh tomatoes, avocado, zucchini and herbs and a deliciously creamy Homemade Italian Dressing. You can cook Amanda's Italian pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Amanda's Italian pasta salad

It's 1 box of short cut pasta.
Prepare 1 packages of marinated mushrooms.
Prepare 1 packages of roasted red peppers.
You need 1 can of artichoke hearts.
It's 1 can of sliced black olives.
Prepare 1 packages of marinated mozzarella balls.
Prepare 1 bunch of fresh basil.
Prepare 1 pinch of sea salt.
It's 1 pinch of black pepper.
Prepare 1 of olive oil, extra virgin.
You need 2 clove of fresh garlic.

Garden veggies with fusilli pasta, Italian Parsley, Genoa salami and creamy Italian dressing makes for a pasta salad that will be a favorite at your next picnic or potluck. 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 whip one up. The Best Italian Pasta Salad Recipe, hands down.

Amanda's Italian pasta salad step by step

Cook pasta to desired texture, strain add olive oil so it doesn't stick, let it cool completely..
Chop artichoke hearts, mozzarella balls, mushrooms, roasted red pepper, black olives to desired size. Set ingredients aside in the fridge. Add so vinegar from the mushrooms for added flavor and oil from the mozzarella balls..
Minced garlic and slice basil..
If pasta is cooled add all ingredients together and salt and pepper to taste. If you have to add more olive oil for moisture make sure you resets on appropriately..
This dish is best if made the night before so the flavors can marry and you can alter the flavor if needed..

Your new go-to pasta salad for spring! Of all the pasta salads out there, I came up with this one which my family loves best. Italian pasta salad is as simple to make as chopping up some veggies, tossing them with cooked spaghetti, and dousing in homemade Italian dressing. Be sure to drain the spaghetti well after it's done cooking, and set it aside to cool slightly before tossing it with the vegetables. When I have guests coming over or a busy day ahead, I like to make this salad because I prepare it the day before.