Simple Summer Pasta Salad – A Very Easy Pasta Salad

I love cold pasta salads in the summertime. They are so easy to make and so refreshing. I recently made a pasta salad for our Memorial Day dinner and it went perfectly with our red, white, and blue berry dessert.  This is a simple recipe that you can whip up fast. Even my pasta-hating husband loved it. Try this easy pasta salad recipe.

Simple Summer Pasta Salad

Ingredients

• 16 ounce box of tri-color rotini pasta
• 2/3 cup Italian dressing (homemade is best!)
• 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
• 1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes, halved

Directions

1. Cook pasta according to package directions and drain. Rinse pasta with cold water to stop the cooking and cool it down.
2. Mix all the ingredients together. You can adjust the amount of each ingredient to your tastes.
3. Refrigerate until ready to serve. If the salad will be in the fridge for more than an hour, keep some Italian nearby as the pasta will absorb it quickly.