Recipe: Appetizing Summertime Pasta Salad

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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! Best of all, this recipe calls for frozen vegetables, so it's perfect when you don't have time.

Summertime Pasta Salad 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. You can cook Summertime Pasta Salad using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Summertime Pasta Salad

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

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. 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.

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 😉!.

Colorful and quickly assembled, this make-ahead summertime salad goes well with grilled meats or poultry. 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.