Easy Creamy Pasta Salad
Easy Creamy Pasta Salad - Easy and delicious creamy pasta salad recipe perfect for weeknight meals, BBQ's and weekend potlucks! This is a family favorite and has become our go to pasta salad recipe.
Servings 6
Ingredients
- 1 lb rotini pasta or pasta of your choice
- 1 orange pepper,cleaned and chopped
- 1 red pepper, cleaned and chopped
- ½ small red onion, chopped
- ½ english cucumber, quartered and sliced
- 12 black olives, sliced
For The Dressing
- ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ½ cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp oregano
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Mix together dressing first and set aside making sure sugar is dissolved completely.Cook pasta according to box directions. I like mine al dente.
While pasta is cooking cut the vegetables for the pasta salad and place them in a med- large bowl. Large enough to mix the pasta salad.When pasta is cooked drain pasta well and rinse under cold water. Add pasta the vegetables . Mix together. Then pour dressing over pasta a little at a time. You may find you like your pasta salad with a little less dressing. You can always add more. Toss pasta salad as your pouring the dressing. We normally chill the pasta salad for a few hours and sometimes overnight. This recipe can easily be doubled or add more vegetables!