How to Make Pasta Salad

hi everybody everybody i'm back everybody genie young is back and i'm back with yet another amazing recipe i am so excited today because today at the young's house gina young is going to share with you all just how easy it is to make delicious pasta salad this pasta salad is amazing it's so easy to make it doesn't require a lot of ingredients and you know making gina young style it's going to be so tasty y'all never had my pasta salad before you better make yourself here are the lovely ingredients you're gonna need of course you will need some nice fresh tomatoes we have some beautiful fresh tomatoes that i have washed with cold water and we also have some hard salami i like to go to my local deli and ask them to slice it just like so nice and thick so we can chop it down into cubes and also you will need some zesty robust italian dressing you're going to need some nice fresh cucumbers and also you will need ranch powder seasoning this makes it amazing and you're going to need some black olives i know some of you are not fans of black olives but if you wanted to really pop out in color put you some black olives in it it really makes it beautiful and also you're going to need some tri-colored rotini noodles make sure your hands are impeccably clean let's get started with this really quick and simple yet so tasty recipe okay everyone so one of the first things that you want to do let's get started on these beautiful tri-color rotini noodles so now i have some water here that's boiling you always want to salt your water anytime you're making noodles you're making rice or potatoes salt the water so the noodles taste delicious okay so i'm gonna open up i use about a pound and a half this is a pound box and then i'll use a little bit of these ones i love the different colors because it makes for such a beautiful pasta salad so then let's put a little bit of these in i hope you all are having an amazing day today have you all had pasta salad before have you made it before if you've never made it or you've never tasted it you are in for a treat because it's so much fun to make it's so easy like i said earlier it doesn't require a lot of ingredients and you get to eat it for a couple of days so i'm stirring my noodles around a little bit let's go ahead and start to chop up some of our hard salami now you might like pepperoni if you like pepperoni absolutely you can put it in your pasta salad so here's how i like to chop it up now if you put pepperoni in you know how the pepperoni has sort of like the oranges color to it some of that orange color will come off onto your salad so if you don't want that to happen then you're going to want to use you know the hard salami and if you want to chop it down a little bit smaller absolutely you can so i'm going to continue to chop up all of this beautiful tasty hard salami and when i come back i'll show you what we'll do next okay everyone so we have all of the um hard salami nice and chopped up just like so okay so we'll set that aside and now i want to take this time to chop up some tomatoes make sure you wash off your tomatoes you want to wash off those nasty pesticides and also you never know who's handled your veggies before you brought them home so i've washed off all of the veggies and then i pat them dry with a paper towel so now here's how i'm going to slice our tomatoes i do want to cut the core out it's pretty simple okay i'm just going to go in and do this each one all right now let's talk about cheese and pasta salad because i know when i make pasta salad you all are going to say oh gina you know what really would be good some cheese in that pasta salad well not actually not for this recipe and the reason why is because we're going to use italian dressing italian dressing has the oil and it has the vinegar and the oil and vinegar will break down the cheese and it'll get kind of mushy and no one wants mushy cheese now if you wanted to make a pasta salad that had more of a mayonnaise base then you could throw in loads of cheese but it's really not for this recipe okay especially if you're not a person that would prefer mushy cheese all right so now that we have the core out let's go ahead chop up these beautiful tomatoes tomatoes tomatoes just make sure they're nice and fresh all right so i'm going to cut mines this way okay and then when i do the veggies for the pasta salad i like for my veggies to be kind of big the reason why is because also with that acid from the vinegar it's gonna cause for your veggies to kind of shrink up a little bit if that makes any sense so if you chop your small they're gonna get even smaller so this is the dice that i like to do right here around about this size you want to make them all somewhat the same size if you can okay just like that and i like a lot of tomatoes in my pasta salad because i love the flavor of the italian dressing up against that once that italian dressing gets inside of the tomato and inside of the cucumber delicious so our noodles are cooking they're only going to cook for 11 minutes when i come back i'll show you what we'll do next okay everyone so now let's get started here's what our tomatoes look like i have a lot of them and over here we have our beautifully chopped uh what is it called guys i'm lagging today what is it called hard salami the hard salami is chopped and now we need to address the cucumber so here's how we're going to do it anytime i have cucumbers i do like to chop off some of the skin because i feel like some of the skin is a little bit too bitter for me so and and what i like to do when i do it this way it makes it nice and beautiful okay so we have a little bit of the skin on most of the skin off and you still have that little bit of green going through your chalk okay so i'm gonna go one more time cut a little bit more skin off just like so all right so that's what it'll look like and then now it's time to have some fun we're going to get over there for a second and chop the ends off just like so our noodles are almost done our noodles are only going to cook for 11 minutes that's gonna give you that perfect nice and al dente noodle that's chewy to the tooth and never mushy okay so you see how we have you know the four pieces and then we can go about chopping it just like so keep in mind like i said same with the uh tomatoes you don't want to chop it too small because they will shrink let's see i feel like this one is a little bit too big now we can chop it up now i do have a question for you all and you all can have fun in the comment section and let me know so what do you all going to do for your kids for school this year are some of you doing school are you going to do the homeschooling because as far as here at the young's house with dakota he's going to do the virtual homeschooling and he's going to be using our office he has his computer and all of his school supplies and everything set up and he's really excited okay so we're working on our second cucumber but dakota school they had told me to be looking out for an email to come out this monday that's going to give me information on who his teacher is going to be and how we're going to do things this year but what we're really excited about is the simple fact that last year dakota got a lot of experience on how the online schooling will go so he has an idea and he did really really well with that so i know that he's going to achieve very well this this year as well so let's see one more time and i'll show you if you missed it the first time this is how we're going to do the cucumber just like so if you get a piece that's a little too big just this way and then we'll go in chop them bad boys up just like so and when i come back i'll show you what we'll do next okay everyone you can see that we're here at the sink and i have some cold water running because i want to rinse the noodles we're going to drain them first and then we want to take the time to rinse them in cold water to cool them down and stop the cooking process once we get our noodles nice and cold i'll show you what we'll do next okay everyone so our noodles are nice and cold make sure your noodles are cold before you go any further they're cold and they've been drained i put them back into the wok and the wok has been washed and it's nice and cold as well so now let's get started mixing everything in and from here everything happens really quickly all right so i'm going in with loads of veggies like i said when i make mine hey i like a lot of tomatoes i like a lot of cucumbers definitely that's why i'm using the wok to stir everything in because i feel like the bowl that i have it's not big enough so once i get everything mixed up i'm literally gonna have to use two bowls to store this in okay so now that we have our beautiful tomatoes and cucumbers be very gentle you don't want to break up the tomatoes you don't want to mash up your noodles and break them up okay just kind of fold them in just like so and look at that that's how i like my pasta salad loaded with the veggies and once again there's a lot of people that are not fans of um olives if you're not then you don't have to use them okay will it be as beautiful no but it'll still be tasty it's true okay so i'm gonna go in with one and see how much color i have if i feel like i need a little bit more color then i'm gonna put the other can in maybe not the full can i know my husband he usually picks out the black olives he'll eat a few but most of them he picks it out i'm going to throw them in no one will know all right so there we go and we have that beautiful color now what i like about this salad is we sneak in the ranch powder now listen here there is an italian powder as well you can use that it gives a robust flavor just like this one sometimes i switch between the two sometimes you'll see me use the italian powder let's go ahead with this ranch powder and we want to really really really mix this in get it nice and incorporated so i'm going to put a little bit in just like so and you'll feel like your noodles are getting kind of dry because of this powder going in but don't worry about that not for one second the reason why is because we're gonna soften that up with the italian dressing so i'm going in with the rest of the packet just like so get all that goodness in there don't leave any in the packet it's delicious we're going to mix that in all right and then we pour in the robust make sure when you get your italian dressing you get the zesty robust that's the one that's going to give you the most flavor this recipe is unforgettable it's so tasty everyone i feed it to they go nuts over it okay so once i get this open we're going to pour in the whole bottle yes we are you want to shake it up just like i did and pour in the whole bottle now what i always like to do i always like to do i buy two bottles because sometimes all depending on how our noodles soak up this italian dressing is going to depend on how much italian dressing we're going to use so when i come back i'll have everything mixed in with this one bottle we'll see how moist it is if it's not moist enough i'm gonna put some more in but i can't forget one of our main stars that hard salami get it in there it really takes this pasta salad to another level gina young style gonna mix this up and we'll see how moist it is be back okay everyone so let's talk about it what i did is i used the other bottle but i only used a half of it okay now we want to finish it off with some black pepper this is a must i left that out of the ingredients but don't forget yours okay so just fold in that black pepper just like so when i come back i'm gonna say an amazing prayer and you all are gonna get that first bite look here everybody pasta salad gina young style make you some listen here everybody if you all enjoy this hair video give me a thumbs up if you haven't subscribed make sure you subscribe make sure you click on that notification bell so you can be notified every time gina young uploads one of these awesome recipes tell your family and friends and everybody you know tell the whole world about gina young and what i'm doing in this kitchen on a daily basis let's go ahead and say a really quick prayer and then we're going to take a bite heavenly father lord jesus we want to thank you for your love time your mercy and your understanding please forgive us for our sins come into our hearts we make you our lord and savior send your angels down to surround us day and night your holy spirit to help us make good decisions give us peace over our mind in the name of jesus we pray that the weapons formed against us shall prosper in jesus name and we bind the devil away from us in the name of jesus devil you have no authority over this here household in the name of jesus heavenly father we thank you for the roof over our head the food the love the peace and the joy that you bring us every day we thank you amen amen once again to my beautiful prayer don't forget to let me know what you all are gonna do for this school year i think it'll be a fun conversation for us all to chime in on in the comment section below of this video let's taste this i'm going in i am going in and nobody can stop me oh look at this come on can you get get just get on there all right come on take a bite let's go see this here is my favorite you hear me this is the perfect recipe when it's hot outside this is the perfect recipe for any day make you some gina young style you're going to be happy and as always god bless you all thank you all for watching good night

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Length: 16min 47sec (1007 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 19 2020