How to make a yummy Spaghetti Salad

Want to change up your old summer routine of only having potato salad, macaroni salad or fruit salad? Try this EXTREMELY delicious, chilled pasta salad made with Spaghetti!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1lb spaghetti
• 1 bunch green onions
• 1 can large olives, sliced
• 4 Roma tomatoes diced
• 2 med/1 lg cucumber sliced and quartered
• 1 small/8 oz bottle French salad dressing
• 1 small/8 oz bottle Italian dressing

1. Boil the spaghetti until tender. (Be sure not to over do it or it will be mushy)

2. Drain spaghetti in colander, then run under cool water until all of the spaghetti is cooled. (good time to test a piece for done-ness)

3. Add spaghetti to large serving bowl. Squeeze 3/4 of each salad dressing directly on top of spaghetti and stir until you have an even coating on all spaghetti. (If you are making this ahead of time, this is the point you would want to stop and store it in fridge until ready to serve, one to two days is fine.)

4. Add chopped green onions, black olives, Roma tomatoes and cucumber up to an hour before serving and mix into the spaghetti. Serve and Enjoy!

5. TIPS
   *Leaving the spaghetti w/ dressing on it in the fridge over night is best so that the sauce will soak into the noodles and be more flavorful.
   *If you will have a lot of children eating this, you can break the noodles into smaller pieces, personally I like them whole.
   *If there is a resting time between when you add the veggies and when you serve it, give the salad a good mix again because the veggies will tend to settle on the bottom.
   *stays good for DAYS in the fridge after adding veggies, it GREAT as leftovers (my fave summer lunch is really cold, leftover spaghetti salad.
   *Mix it up a bit, you can add anything you like from bacon, avocado, green olives...whatever you like.

Tips & Warnings

• TIPS
• Leaving the spaghetti w/ dressing on it in the fridge over night is best so that the sauce will soak into the noodles and be more flavorful.
• If you will have a lot of children eating this, you can break the noodles into smaller pieces, personally I like them whole.
• If there is a resting time between when you add the veggies and when you serve it, give the salad a good mix again because the veggies will tend to settle on the bottom.
• stays good for DAYS in the fridge after adding veggies, it GREAT as leftovers (my fave summer lunch is really cold, leftover spaghetti salad.
• Mix it up a bit, you can add anything you like from bacon, avocado, green olives...whatever you like.
• Everyone will ask you to make this for any BBQ you attend, so have a lot of spaghetti on hand!