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Mr Spock's Pasta Salad The ingredients are simple and flexible, so you can make this when you are inundated by summer produce or you can adapt to what's in season in the fall and winter. This is a make-ahead dish which gets better after cooling in the refrigerator. Taste of Home has the best salad recipes from real cooks, featuring reviews, ratings, how-to videos and tips. You can have Mr Spock's Pasta Salad using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Mr Spock's Pasta Salad

  1. Prepare 1 box of Rainbow Rotini (12 Oz ).
  2. You need 1 can of garbanzo beans (15.5 oz).
  3. It's 1 can of 3 bean salad (15 oz).
  4. Prepare 1 can of sliced olives ( 4 oz ).
  5. Prepare 1 packages of hormel pepperoni minis (5 oz).
  6. It's 1 packages of Colby jack cheese (8 oz).
  7. You need 16 oz of Italian salad dressing (16 oz ) 1 bottle.
  8. Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.

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Mr Spock's Pasta Salad instructions

  1. Bring water to boil in pot and add rainbow rotini. Cook Rotini pasta until tender. (10 minutes ) Drain water from pasta through strainer. Return pasta to pot..
  2. Add garbanzo beans, 3 bean salad and olives into the pasta ( drain liquid from cans before adding ) and mix them into the pasta..
  3. Add in pepperoni bits and mix in.
  4. Cut and cube the block of Colby jack cheese and mix into salad.
  5. Add Italian dressing to taste. ( I usually use 3/4 of the bottle or better ).
  6. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar and mix. Helps to soften the Italian dressing..
  7. Refrigerate and let set over night. The pasta will soak in the dressing nicely..

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