Simple Tasty Pasta Salad recipe

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Ingredients

1 (12 ounce) package tri-color rotini pasta
4 Roma (plum) tomatoes, quartered
1 cucumber, quartered and sliced
½ green bell pepper, minced
¼ red onion, minced
1 (2.25 ounce) can sliced black olives
1 (16 ounce) bottle zesty lite Italian-style salad dressing, or to taste
1 (2.5 ounce) package bacon bits
½ (6 ounce) package dried cranberries, or to taste

Nutrition Info

678 calories
carbohydrate: 96.6 g
cholesterol: 14 mg
fat: 23.4 g
fiber: 7.2 g
protein: 21.3 g
saturatedFat: 3.3 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 1547.9 mg
sugar: 25.1 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil, cook the rotini at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes, drain. Rinse pasta with cold water until cool, drain.

  2. Combine cooled pasta, tomatoes, cucumber, green bell pepper, red onion, and black olives in a large bowl.

  3. Pour Italian-style salad dressing over the pasta mixture, toss to coat.

  4. Sprinkle bacon bits and cranberries over the salad to serve.

Recipe Yield

4 servings

Recipe Note

I wanted to try something different from the average pasta salads I've had. So I decided to experiment and thankfully everyone loved it! Feel free use more or less of any of the ingredients according to your palate.

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