Tuscan Pasta Salad
Tuscan Pasta Salad
Recipe by Lunches + Littles
Ingredients
- One box of your favorite pasta (16 oz)
- 4 links of Gilbert’s Tuscan Recipe Chicken Sausage
- 1 small red pepper
- 1/2 of a green pepper
- 1 medium-sized carrot
- 2 stalks of celery
- 1 cup (more or less depending on preference) of your favorite Italian dressing
- 2 tbsp salad seasoning
Instructions
- Cook pasta per package instructions. Drain, rinse with cool water, and set aside.
- While pasta cooks, cook up your sausage and prep all of your vegetables.
- To cook sausage: simply remove sausages from individual wrappers and sauté in a pan on the stovetop for a few min. until warmed and lightly browned. Set aside.
- To prep vegetables: dice peppers, grate carrot, and slice celery. Set aside.
- Once the sausage cools, coin as shown above. Set aside.
- Next, combine pasta with dressing and gently stir to coat.
- Add in salad seasoning and again gently stir to coat.
- Then to pasta add in all prepped veggies, coined sausages, and carefully stir to combine.
- Taste and adjust seasoning and dressing as desired. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours prior to serving and enjoy! *If desired, top with additional seasoning just prior to serving.