American
Pasta Salad
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Pasta Salad is American home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Boil the pasta according to the package directions, then drain and rinse under cold water.
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Combine the pasta with the halved cherry tomatoes, diced cucumber, and olives in a large bowl.
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Toss with the Italian dressing and chill at least 20 minutes before serving.
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Serve it with
A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pasta Salad, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pasta Salad carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bagged Side Salad |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 440 kcal
- Protein
- 10 g
- Carbs
- 69 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 580 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pasta Salad takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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