Recipe: Appetizing Taisen's semi Italian pasta salad

Taisen's semi Italian pasta salad. Pasta salad filled with veggies, cheese, and seasoning. Very tasty and versatile -- is great to make ahead. But the healthful fat also soaks into the bread cubes and renders them semi-waterproof, or dressing-proof.

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Ingredients of Taisen's semi Italian pasta salad

1. You need of black pitted olives sliced or leave whole.
2. You need of vine tipe tomatoes sliced into bite size pieces (you can use any kind of tomato).
3. It's of mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes or however you like (I buy the round one from Aldi's).
4. Prepare of mozzarella cheese, cubed.
5. You need of sliced pepperoni (cut into fours, I cut them in half and then half again).
6. It's of large cucumber (cut into fours or whichever size you want).
7. It's of any kind of pasta noodles.
8. It's of medium or small onion, diced (sweet or red, your choice).
9. It's of regular ham, honey ham or any other ham cut into bite size pieces.
10. Prepare of Italian dressing (you can use regular or zesty).

Made with rotini pasta, cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, black olives, feta cheese in Italian dressing. Easy Italian Pasta Salad takes just minutes to make and can be eaten right away or refrigerated. I was inspired to make this because I went on a Salami Bender* after the Salami Cream Cheese Roll I shared a couple of weeks ago. This Italian dressing is one of my all time favourite Pasta Salad Dressings.

Taisen's semi Italian pasta salad instructions

1. Boil your pasta noodles until done. Remove from heat, drain and let cool. You don't have to use the entire box. I didn't. I used maybe half or a bit over half..
2. While the noodles cool, start prepping the rest of the ingredients..
3. Open and drain black olives. Slice them length wise, in half or leave whole. Your choice..
4. Rinse off the tomatoes, and slice into bite size or you can use grape tomatoes..
5. Rinse, peel and slice your cucumber into bite size pieces..
6. Slice up your block of mozzarella cheese into small bite sizes. Slice your soft round mozzarella into thin slices or however you like..
7. Take your ham and chop it up into pieces or into long thin lengths. I used deli ham..
8. Chop up your onion if using onion..
9. For the pepperoni, you can leave them sliced as is or cut up. I cut mine into fours..
10. When the noodles are cool, add some of the Italian dressing. Mix. Start adding in everything that you chopped and sliced. Mix well. You don't have to use the entire bottle..
11. Cover with plastic wrap and set in the fridge for at least an hour. Enjoy ;).

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