Recipe: Tasty 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 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. You can have 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. Prepare of Salt for boiling water.
  3. You need 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper.
  4. Prepare 1 tablespoon of garlic powder.
  5. You need 1 tablespoon of parsley flakes.
  6. Prepare 1 of zucchini, peeled and cut into cubes.
  7. You need 1/2 of red onion, chopped.
  8. It's 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.

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. Mediterranean mix-ins make this pasta salad so fresh.

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 😉!.

This colorful pasta dish is perfect for summertime. Colorful and quickly assembled, this make-ahead summertime salad goes well with grilled meats or poultry. 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.