Simple Tasty Pasta Salad

Simple Tasty Pasta Salad
Simple Tasty Pasta Salad requires roughly 30 minutes from start to finish. For $3.14 per serving, you get a main course that serves 4. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 851 calories, 19g of protein, and 35g of fat per serving. Head to the store and pick up bacon bits, tri-color rotini pasta, 1 (16 ounce) bottle zesty lite italian-style salad dressing, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the dried cranberries you could follow this main course with the Breakfast Cookies as a dessert.

Instructions

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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.
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Combine cooled pasta, tomatoes, cucumber, green bell pepper, red onion, and black olives in a large bowl.
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Pour Italian-style salad dressing over the pasta mixture; toss to coat.
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Sprinkle bacon bits and cranberries over the salad to serve.
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DifficultyNormal
Ready In30 m.
Servings4
Health Score14
Dish TypesSalad
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