Recipe: Tasty Vegetarian Tri Color Tortellini Pasta Salad

Vegetarian Tri Color Tortellini Pasta Salad. Enjoy This Easy Vegetarian Pasta Salad That's A Winner On Every Level. Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Add your tortellini and reduce heat to gently cook the pasta, according to package instructions, to either tender or al-dente.

First boil the cheese tortellini noodles according to package directions and drain well. Meanwhile chop your cucumbers, tomatoes, black olives, peperoncinis, red onion and mozzarella cheese. Next in a large bowl combine the cooled tortellini noodles, all your chopped vegetables and Italian dressing. You can have Vegetarian Tri Color Tortellini Pasta Salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Vegetarian Tri Color Tortellini Pasta Salad

1. Prepare 1 lb of tri color cheese tortellini.
2. You need 1 box of cherry tomatoes.
3. It's 1 of zucchini.
4. You need 1 box of fresh button mushrooms.
5. Prepare 1 small of red onion.
6. It's 1 cup of green peas.
7. You need 6 clove of garlic.
8. Prepare 1/4 cup of grated pecorino romano cheese.
9. You need 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of kosher salt.
11. Prepare 1/4 tsp of crushed mixed tropical pepper or black pepper.

How To Make Tortellini Veggie Pasta Salad Place spinach in large bowl. Boil the tortellini per package instructions. Drain then transfer tortellini to bowl with spinach. In a large bowl combine, tortellini, peppers, onion, and olives.

Vegetarian Tri Color Tortellini Pasta Salad step by step

1. boil & cook tortellini & rinse in cold water to stop cooking & put in large bowl.
2. quarter mushroom & saute in pan with olive oil over low heat.
3. cut cherry tomatoes in half & give slight sqeeze over bowl to release lil juice & add to bowl.
4. quarter zucchini & chop into half inch pieces & put in bowl raw.
5. cut red onion in half & slice thin & put in bowl.
6. add room temperature green peas into bowl.
7. mince fresh garlic & place in bowl.
8. add grated cheese to bowl along with olive oil & salt & pepper.
9. mix gently with spoon & ready to serve.

Pour lemon dressing over salad, and toss to coat pasta. Cover, and chill for at least four hours. Before serving, toss in feta and Parmesan. Tortellini Pasta Salad Tortellini pasta salad is great for spring and summer, and it makes a great side dish or easy vegetarian meal. Garlic, tomatoes, artichokes, kalamata olives, basil, olive oil.