Pasta and antipasto…together at last.
Get ready for the best homemade pasta salad recipe!
Antipasto is a funny name. It sounds like it should mean something that cancels out pasta, right? So if you eat the antipasto and the pasta together, you’re still hungry?
But normally, just the opposite is true. The antipasto tray gets put out at the start of the meal, all loaded up with meat and cheese and olives, and you stuff yourself with all those goodies. Then, by the time the pasta dish shows up on the table, you have no room left for it.
This seems like an impossible dilemma. You don’t want to give up all that delicious antipasto, but you don’t want to miss out on the pasta either. Is there any solution?
There is now! All you have to do is put the antipasto and pasta together, in one fabulous dish. And here it is: my Italian Spaghetti Pasta Salad!
This dish has it all: spaghetti, pepperoni, black olives, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, and Parmesan, all topped with a zesty Italian dressing. It’s all the flavors of Italy in one bowl.
And I promise you, it won’t leave you hungry.
Italian Spaghetti Pasta Salad
(printable recipe directions and ingredient list at bottom of post)
DIRECTIONS:
- Combine all ingredients into a bowl.
- Toss until well combined.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.
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Italian Spaghetti Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 1 lb spaghetti noodle, cooked
- 30 slices of pepperoni, halved
- 1 cup sliced black olives
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 medium cucumber sliced, and quartered
- 1/2 of a small red onion, thinly sliced.
- 1 cup Zesty Italian Dressing
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a bowl.
- Toss until well combined.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.
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Nutrition Information:
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Brenda says
Easy to make had everything on hand. took it to a picnic wish I had doubled it. what a hit, I will make it again. Thank you
Anne says
This was so tasty! We don’t do tomatoes so I used bell peppers instead. Quick and easy and ingredients a lot of us already have in the cupboard!!
Joann says
How many calories and sodium is in this please ? I am on low sodium diet. Thank u
LL says
This got described as bland and no one ate it. I think using a different pasta would help with the dressing sticking to it.
Debra Schroth says
Add some Salad supreme by By McCormick it is delicious
Bonnie McGowan says
This is the best recipe. I have been making it since the 80’s. Kick it up a notch by adding about 2.4 bottle of McCormick Salad Supreme, it is hard to find in the supermarket, but it is worth the hunt!
Corey says
Oooooh! I will have to try that McCormick Salad Supreme if I can find it.