Hello everybody, it is me, Connelly, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, taisen's semi italian pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pasta salad is truly as easy as boiling water if you stick to a simple formula, use a smart pasta cooling trick, and a flavorful dressing. Remember that the pasta will plump as it cooks, and you want pasta salad to have a generous combination of pasta and vegetables in each bite. 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.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have taisen's semi italian pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Taisen's semi Italian pasta salad:
- Take 1 can black pitted olives sliced or leave whole
- Take 3-4 vine tipe tomatoes sliced into bite size pieces (you can use any kind of tomato)
- Prepare 1 packages mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes or however you like (I buy the round one from Aldi's)
- Take 1/2-1 block mozzarella cheese, cubed
- Make ready 1 packages sliced pepperoni (cut into fours, I cut them in half and then half again)
- Make ready 1 large cucumber (cut into fours or whichever size you want)
- Take 1 box any kind of pasta noodles
- Take 1 medium or small onion, diced (sweet or red, your choice)
- Get 1 packages regular ham, honey ham or any other ham cut into bite size pieces
- Get 1 bottle Italian dressing (you can use regular or zesty)
How long does pasta salad with Italian dressing last? Pasta salad with the dressing on it can be stored for later with no problems. If you like this recipe you may also be. This fresh, flavorful zesty Italian pasta salad is loaded with all the favorites - mozzarella, olives, tomatoes, salami, and of course, pasta!
Instructions to make Taisen's semi Italian pasta salad:
- Boil your pasta noodles until done. Remove from heat, drain and let cool. You don't have to use the entire box. I didn't. I used maybe half or a bit over half.
- While the noodles cool, start prepping the rest of the ingredients.
- Open and drain black olives. Slice them length wise, in half or leave whole. Your choice.
- Rinse off the tomatoes, and slice into bite size or you can use grape tomatoes.
- Rinse, peel and slice your cucumber into bite size pieces.
- Slice up your block of mozzarella cheese into small bite sizes. Slice your soft round mozzarella into thin slices or however you like.
- Take your ham and chop it up into pieces or into long thin lengths. I used deli ham.
- Chop up your onion if using onion.
- For the pepperoni, you can leave them sliced as is or cut up. I cut mine into fours.
- When the noodles are cool, add some of the Italian dressing. Mix. Start adding in everything that you chopped and sliced. Mix well. You don't have to use the entire bottle.
- Cover with plastic wrap and set in the fridge for at least an hour. Enjoy ;)
This may seem like your basic Italian pasta salad, but I promise you it tastes soooo much better. I've added a few key ingredients to really make the flavors. Easy Italian pasta salad with homemade Italian dressing! Loaded with fresh basil, pepperoni, pearl mozzarella, banana peppers, olives and tomatoes. Well, one day I loaded that Italian pasta salad on my plate, I was so happy and ready to give my taste buds a party!
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