Summertime Pasta Salad. Healthy pasta salad featuring bold summer flavors, including tomatoes, corn and black beans tossed in fresh pesto! Nothing says summer quite like a cool pasta salad with loads of vegetables! Summertime Pasta Salad - a cold pasta salad packed with fresh veggies and lightly dressed with a parmesan and garlic dressing.
It has no mayo and is not "heavy" in the least bit. So good on a hot day. Cut-up veggies add color and crunch to this cool and creamy tuna and pasta salad. You can cook Summertime Pasta Salad using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Summertime Pasta Salad
- Prepare 1 box (16 ounce) of your favorite pasta.
- You need of Salt for boiling water.
- You need 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of garlic powder.
- Prepare 1 tablespoon of parsley flakes.
- Prepare 1 of zucchini, peeled and cut into cubes.
- It's 1/2 of red onion, chopped.
- You need 1 of red pepper, chopped.
- It's 1 can (4.25 ounce) of black olives.
- It's 1 bottle (16 ounce) of Greek dressing.
Double bonus: It's a breeze to make and serves a crowd. The Summertime Pasta Salad recipe is one of the quality recipes that comes from the DVO Prepare pasta according to package directions. Drain, rinse under cold running water, and drain again. Colorful and quickly assembled, this make-ahead summertime salad goes well with grilled meats or poultry.
Summertime Pasta Salad instructions
- Bring pasta to a boil..... Don’t forget to salt your water!!.
- Drain pasta, rinse in cold water and return to pot after draining thoroughly.......
- Add to pasta your black pepper, garlic powder, parsley flakes, zucchini, red onion, red pepper, black olives and Greek dressing, stir thoroughly.......
- Cover and refrigerate for several hours or overnight, stirring occasionally.....Serve and enjoy 😉!.
Healthy Pasta Salad is a summertime must have for BBQ, potluck, picnic and pool parties. Loaded with fun shape whole grain pasta and bite size pieces of veggies. Course/Dish: Vegetables Pasta Sides Pasta Salads. Summertime dinners are about easy recipes that incorporate fresh ingredients at their peak flavor. While pasta cooks, remove seeds from tomatoes and dice; peel and grate carrot; quarter the squash and zucchini lengthwise, then slice; chop.