Making this Italian pasta salad with salami for lunch or dinner on a summer night is a terrific idea.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
Ingredients
- 8 ounces rotelli pasta
- ¾ cup creamy salad dressing
- ¾ cup Italian-style salad dressing
- ¾ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 8 ounces salami, cubed
- 1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 (2 ounce) can sliced black olives
- ½ red onion, julienned
Instructions
- In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook pasta until al dente, rinse under cold water, and drain.
- In a large bowl, mix together creamy salad dressing, Italian dressing, and Parmesan.
- Add pasta, salami, bell pepper, olives, and onion. Stir well to evenly coat. Allow to chill before serving.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 527 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 39 g |
| Cholesterol | 58 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 19 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 1762 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 33 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
very easy
I switched this up a little bit and added Mozzarella pearls, celery & fresh basil in place of the peppers & parmesan cheese.
It was good, but a bit “heavy” for my taste in pasta salads. What I like about pasta salads is that they’re light, this one, not so much. I think I’d cut back on the dressings and use less of the salami and cut it smaller.
Definitely will make this pasta salad again!!!
Added cubed fresh mozzarella. Delicious!
Didn’t make any changes. We both love it.
We love this recipe. However, I don’t like bell peppers so I use zucchini cut in small pieces. Also, once I didn’t have pasta but used 9 oz pkg of cheese filled tortellini. Excellent!
Simple, easy and delicious! I added halved cherry tomatoes and asparagus. My wifes office loved it!
We loved this salad–the creamy dressing with parmesan cheese was a nice change from traditional Italian pasta salads I usually make. DH likes his pasta salad meaty, so this was perfect for him. I’ll definitely make this again.
It was the best thank you five star
long time favorite.
Would have rated this a 5, but putting it at a 4 because it is a very expensive salad to make. Salami $7 a roll, 1 red pepper $3, freshly grated parmesan, $1.50. Total it ended up costing at least $15-$17 just for one salad!! I did use real mayo, not salad dressing because that’s what we like. It tasted very good, but at the price of making it, probably won’t be making again for a while.
I cut out the creamy salad dressing and just used 3/4 cup Italian.
I don’t use “creamy salad dressing” so I just used a mix of mayonnaise and sour cream. To make it a little more hearty, I threw in some halved cherry tomatoes and one large cucumber that I cut into fourths. This was yummy. This serves four, not six. There was enough for my boys and I for dinner with a portion leftover for lunch tomorrow.
Great recipe! I added celery, grape tomatoes and cubes of mont jack cheese (same size as salami) and used shell macaroni. I made my own italian dressing and for the creamy salad dressing I just used a little bit of mayo to bind everything together- big hit!
My husband really enjoyed this. I added quartered grape tomatoes and fresh parsley, which added a nice fresh flavor. I assumed the ‘creamy salad dressing’ meant Miracle Whip, which we are not fans of, so I used light Hellman’s mayo instead. Very good. Thanks! 🙂
I love this and so does everyone else. Advice….this soaks up a lot of the dressing so I buy an extra FAT FREE italian dressing and add to it if it looks dry. Fantastic recipe! Love adding bell pepper to mine too, green, red, yellow, orange, etc….adds even more color and tastes great!
It was good. I did take one other reviewers advice and took extra dressing to add just before serving so it wouldn’t be dry. I’m glad I did b/c it was a bit dry, it was gobbled up though at the carry-in I took it to!
I loved this pasta salad. I used a creamy ceaser salad dressing for the creamy dressing. I added some chopped green pepper and used yellow onion. I will make this again!! Thanks for the great recipe.
Good
we really liked this pasta salad. It did add a TBLS of sugar only to cut back on the acidity of the Italian dressing – which can give heartburn. An easy recipe to tweak (variations of ham, pepperoni or other veggies can be used with success). Thanks Deanna. Keeping this in my recipe book.