How To Make Simple Tasty Pasta Salad
Try making an effortless meal with our Simple Tasty Pasta Salad Recipe. Enjoy a colorful dish of tricolor rotini pasta, Italian dressing, and bacon bits.
Preparation: 20 minutes
Cooking: 10 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
- 12ozrotini pastatri-color
- 4pcsRoma tomatoesplum, quartered
- 1cucumberquartered and sliced
- ½green bell pepperminced
- ¼pcred onionminced
- 2.25ozblack olivessliced
- 16ozItalian-style salad dressingzesty lite, to taste
- 2.5ozbacon bits(1 package)
- 6ozdried cranberriesto taste
Instructions
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Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook the rotini at a boil for about 8 minutes, until tender yet firm to the bite.
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Drain the rotini. Rinse pasta with cold water until cool, then drain.
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Combine cooled pasta, tomatoes, cucumber, green bell pepper, red onion, and black olives in a large bowl.
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Pour Italian-style salad dressing over the pasta mixture, then toss to coat.
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Sprinkle bacon bits and cranberries over the salad to serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 1099.58kcal
- Fat: 68.29g
- Saturated Fat: 13.39g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 21.67g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 29.18g
- Carbohydrates: 109.15g
- Fiber: 7.16g
- Sugar: 36.31g
- Protein: 18.83g
- Cholesterol: 18.96mg
- Sodium: 518.64mg
- Calcium: 59.41mg
- Potassium: 606.92mg
- Iron: 2.57mg
- Vitamin A: 37.56µg
- Vitamin C: 23.09mg
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