Spaghetti Salad

10 servings
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Refrigerate 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Spaghetti Salad is an easy, flavorful recipe with cooked pasta, crisp vegetables, mozzarella, and parmesan tossed in tangy Italian dressing.

Spaghetti noodles and parmesan cheese are a quick, easy way to add a twist on Pasta Salad. For another simple but delicious way to upgrade the classic dish, try my Antipasto Pasta Salad.

Sabrina’s Spaghetti Salad Recipe

Spaghetti Salad is a crowd-pleasing dish perfect for bringing to a potluck, picnic, or cookout. If you’re making the recipe for a big event with lots of people, then I’d recommend doubling up the recipe. With tender noodles, crunchy vegetables, and tangy Italian salad dressing, the simple mixture is the perfect blend of flavors and textures that will keep everyone coming back for more.

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Spaghetti Salad

Spaghetti Salad is an easy, flavorful recipe with cooked pasta, crisp vegetables, mozzarella, and parmesan tossed in tangy Italian dressing.
Yield 10 servings
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients
 

  • 1 pound spaghetti , cooked, drained and rinsed
  • 8 ounces mozzarella cheese , diced
  • 2 cups cherry tomatoes , halved
  • 8 ounces black olives , medium, pitted
  • 1 green bell pepper , chopped
  • 1 red bell pepper , chopped
  • 2 cups Italian Dressing
  • 2/3 cup Parmesan cheese , grated

Instructions

  • In a large bowl add the pasta, mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, black olives, green bell pepper, dressing and grated Parmesan cheese and toss gently.
  • Refrigerate at least an hour before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 421kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.03g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 1086mg | Potassium: 291mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 879IU | Vitamin C: 32mg | Calcium: 206mg | Iron: 1mg
Collage of prep steps and finished pasta salad

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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