Recipe: Perfect Italian spaghetti pasta salad

Italian spaghetti pasta salad.

You can cook Italian spaghetti pasta salad using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Italian spaghetti pasta salad

1. You need 1 lbs of box spaghetti.
2. You need 2 of cucumbers cut.
3. It's half of Grape or cherry tomatoes cut in.
4. Prepare of Small can of black olives drained.
5. You need 1 of red bell pepper cut in bite size pieces.
6. Prepare Half of a red onion cut in small pieces.
7. It's 1 bag of mini pepperoni optional or can the the regular size pepperoni in half, that’s what I do.
8. You need of Dressing.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of pepper.
10. You need 2 tbsp of Italian seasoning.
11. It's 1 tbsp of sugar.
12. It's 1 tsp of kosher salt.
13. You need 1 tsp of garlic minced.
14. It's 1/2 cup of red wine vinegar.
15. You need 1 cup of olive oil.
16. You need of I like to use store Italian dressing to save time.

Italian spaghetti pasta salad instructions

1. Cook box of spaghetti, drain, Cool off pasta by running cold water over it when still in colander. put cooked spaghetti in a big bowl,chill in refrigerator for 15-20 mins..
2. Add the cut veggies to the chilled cooked spaghetti and mix well..
3. Make dressing or can skip this step and use Italian dressing. Add all dressing ingredients to a bowl, add wet ingredients and mix well..
4. Add dressing to spaghetti mixture, and the pepperoni mix well.
5. Chill in the fridge for four hours or over night. (this is good just chilled at 2 hrs).
6. Add some parmesan cheese right before serving and some black pepper. mix up before serving.Enjoy 😉.
7. Notes- I didn’t have all the veggies on hand so I used what I had, and I add some salami, I left out Black olives because Iam not a big fan of them... use what you have, peppers, would be good in this.(This would be a good dish to make if you have a lot of veggies or leftover veggies from other recipe / veggies that need to be used before they go bad.) you can put anything in this really make it our own love to see photos of what you come up with..
8. Link to the video that I got my inspiration from for this awesome recipe. https://youtu.be/1eS_UBr-68g.