Are you ready for a easy summertime salad?
This spaghetti salad is one of the easiest salads you can throw together on a hot summer day for a backyard bbq, pool party, lunch, or dinner with added protein (or not).
I made this salad decades ago when I catered in The Woodlands and I just rediscovered the recipe and took to our Round Top Lunch Bunch today. Several people ask for the recipe and since I always take pictures of food I make incase I want to blog it, here’s the recipe for anyone who use to make it and forgot how nice of a salad it is or someone just tasting it for the first time.
I was surprised McCormick still made their Salad Supreme seasoning and our local HEB carried it. You can add just about anything to this salad. I had spaghetti which I broke in half. Next time I would probably break the pasta into thirds. My add-ins were black olives, roma tomatoes, broccoli, the little miniature peppers that are different colors, sunflower seeds, red onion, cucumber and julienned carrots. If you don’t like cucumber zucchini is a good substitute. I’ve also used yellow squash and I think a good crumble of feta cheese would be great or some parmesan.
We are having leftovers tonight with some grilled redfish so dinner tonight will be a breeze. I’m thinking this summer I might do this salad with some grilled chicken added to the top.
If you have any other variations you try, please leave me a note down below. Other than. the dressing/spices I didn’t measure anything. If this is the first time to my blog, take a look around because a lot of the Michie family recipes are on these pages.
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Tomato and Onion Salad is another great and easy recipe to make in the summer months when you start getting some beautiful tomatoes on your vines or from the market.
All the ingredients for this summertime favorite.
I did all my prep in advance so when it came to. putting the salad together I just dumped everything in the bowl.
The seasoning is mixed with the Zesty Italian dressing them mixed with the pasta.
Add all the chopped veggies to the pasta bowl. Toss until everything is coated with the dressing.
Top with some sunflower seeds.
Ready to serve.
Summertime Spaghetti Salad
Ingredients
- 8 oz. spaghetti
- 1 c. Zesty Italian dressing
- 2 Tbs. McCormick's Salad Supreme spice
- 1 c. chopped broccoli florets
- 1/2 c. thinly sliced red onion
- 3-4 roma tomatoes chopped
- 1/2-3/4 c. sliced black olives
- 3/4 c. julienned carrots
- 1/2 of English cucumber sliced thin
- 3-4 small rainbow peppers sliced thin
- sunflower seeds
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Mix the salad dressing and the salad supreme seasoning in a bowl and set aside.
- Cook the spaghetti and then drain, and rinse under cold water. To the drained spaghetti add the salad dressing mixture and toss to coat spaghetti.
- Add all the chopped vegetables to the spaghetti and toss to make sure dressing is coating everything. Add the sunflower seeds.
Recipe Notes
*Feta would also be good added as a garnish to this salad.
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