Recipe: Tasty Summertime Pasta Salad

Summertime Pasta Salad. Healthy pasta salad featuring bold summer flavors, including tomatoes, corn and black beans tossed in fresh pesto! Summertime Pasta Salad - a cold pasta salad packed with fresh veggies and lightly dressed with a parmesan and garlic dressing. Call me old-fashioned but I just love a good old pasta salad.

The Summertime Pasta Salad recipe is one of the quality recipes that comes from the DVO Prepare pasta according to package directions. Cut-up veggies add color and crunch to this cool and creamy tuna and pasta salad. Double bonus: It's a breeze to make and serves a crowd. You can cook Summertime Pasta Salad using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Summertime Pasta Salad

1. You need 1 box (16 ounce) of your favorite pasta.
2. Prepare of Salt for boiling water.
3. It's 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper.
4. Prepare 1 tablespoon of garlic powder.
5. Prepare 1 tablespoon of parsley flakes.
6. You need 1 of zucchini, peeled and cut into cubes.
7. You need 1/2 of red onion, chopped.
8. You need 1 of red pepper, chopped.
9. It's 1 can (4.25 ounce) of black olives.
10. Prepare 1 bottle (16 ounce) of Greek dressing.

Colorful and quickly assembled, this make-ahead summertime salad goes well with grilled meats or poultry. Here is a refreshing summer pasta salad. It has no mayo and is not "heavy" in the least bit. So good on a hot day.

Summertime Pasta Salad step by step

1. Bring pasta to a boil..... Don’t forget to salt your water!!.
2. Drain pasta, rinse in cold water and return to pot after draining thoroughly.......
3. Add to pasta your black pepper, garlic powder, parsley flakes, zucchini, red onion, red pepper, black olives and Greek dressing, stir thoroughly.......
4. Cover and refrigerate for several hours or overnight, stirring occasionally.....Serve and enjoy 😉!.

In a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the pasta until al dente. Drain and transfer to a baking Add the pasta, basil and lemon juice and toss again. Season to taste with Italian seasoning, salt and. While pasta cooks, remove seeds from tomatoes and dice; peel and grate carrot; quarter the squash and zucchini lengthwise, then slice; chop. I love making this mayo-less summer pasta salad with arugula, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, capers, fresh shaved Parmesan cheese Perfect summertime meal!