Pasta Salad with Cucumber and Black Olives
A full flavoured salad which uses seasoning to really bring home the zest. It's simple with only six ingredients and takes just minutes to prepare though it needs to chill a few hours.
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 450g fusilli pasta
- 220g Cheddar cheese, cubed
- 3 3/4 teaspoons all-purpose seasoning
- 1 cup Italian salad dressing
- 170g black olives, sliced
- 1 large cucumber, diced
Directions
Preparation:10min ›
Cook:10min ›
Extra time:3hours chilling ›
Ready in:3hours20min
- Cook pasta in boiling salted water until al dente. Rinse with cool water and drain well.
- In a large bowl mix together the cubed cheese, seasoning, black olives and diced cucumbers.
- Add the drained and cooled pasta to the large bowl, pour Italian dressing over pasta and vegetables. Mix well.
- Refrigerate for several hours before serving.
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We have updated this recipe to correct the amount of Old Bay seasoning called for in the ingredient list. - 07 May 2001 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This is a wonderful pasta salad! I added chopped tomatoes and onions, and used Asiago cheese instead of Monterey Jack (it was what I had on hand). Using vegetable rotini also adds lots of color. Thanks, Linda! - 17 Jun 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
Really good pasta salad. Made for a family get together and it was inhaled! I left out the cheese cubes and added some grape tomaotes I cut in half, 1/4 of a large green pepper and just a little minced vadalia onion. I've made this pasta salad before without the Old Bay, but I really like the addition of it. Made it a little spicy but it wasn't so much that my 2 year old couldn't eat it. Delicious! - 05 Aug 2006 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)