Italian Tortellini Salad

The perfect pasta salad for any pot-luck, picnic, cookout or backyard barbecue!  This delicious tortellini salad is loaded with all of your Italian favorites, like salami, tomatoes, olives, banana peppers, red onion, and topped with Italian dressing and shredded Parmesan cheese!  The ultimate side dish for any meal!

Loaded with fresh, delicious tomatoes, onions, peppers, olives, and mini-pepperoni, this salad could easily be a meal in itself.  The tri-color tortellini pasta comes together wonderfully with the rest of the ingredients making an amazingly colorful dish!  The shredded Parmesan cheese really brings the salad together and is complimentary to the cheese tortellini.

This salad is very simple to make, and comes together quickly and easily.  Feel free to use a store-bought Italian dressing, as is coats the pasta and veggies well and adds a nice, complimentary flavor.

Here’s the easy, delicious recipe for my Italian Tortellini Salad:

Italian Tortellini Salad

The perfect pasta salad for any pot-luck, picnic, cookout or backyard barbecue! This delicious tortellini salad is loaded with all of your Italian favorites, like salami, tomatoes, olives, banana peppers, red onion, and topped with Italian dressing and shredded Parmesan cheese! The ultimate side dish for any meal!

Ingredients

• 10 oz. small or medium cheese tortellini pasta (tri-color or regular)
• 1 (5 oz.) pkg, mini pepperoni's
• 1 c. cherry tomatoes (red and/or yellow), quartered
• 1 (3.8 oz.) can, black olives, drained
• ½ c. red onion, diced
• ½ c. jarred mild yellow banana peppers, chopped
• 1 c. Italian salad dressing
• 1 c. shredded Parmesan cheese
• pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water. Let set to cool.
2. In a large mixing bowl, add the mini pepperoni, tomatoes, olives, red onion, and banana peppers. Toss with the cooled tortellini pasta. Add the dressing and cheese and toss all ingredients to coat. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving. Serve chilled.
3. Store in an air-tight container for up to 1 week.