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Looking for an easy make-ahead pasta salad? This Easy Pizza Pasta Salad includes all our favorite pizza toppings and is perfect for lunch boxes or as a side dish! It has fresh veggies like tomatoes, peppers, and onions!

Easy pizza pasta salad in wooden bowl

What is great is you can add in any of your favorite toppings to help customize it to your family’s liking. The best part, this salad recipe can be ready in about 20 minutes!

Pizza Pasta Salad: A Great and Convenient Lunchbox Idea

The kids can even get involved in prepping this easy pizza pasta salad by chopping the vegetables and mixing the ingredients. The leftovers pack well in lunchboxes (for the kids and parents) and can be paired with veggies and dip, fruit, or other lunchbox faves for a filling and nutritious meal. We love dipping the leftover pepper slices from this pizza pasta salad in guacamole or homemade hummus.

Easy Pizza Pasta Salad in lunch box

Just want to enjoy it as a meal? Go for it! This fresh pasta is an excellent choice to bring to your summer gatherings as the perfect side dish that is sure to please.

What is super fun about this recipe is that you really could add whatever other favorite vegetables your family enjoys. You can even spruce it up with some fresh basil or other herbs from the garden, too!

Nutrition Tip: Sweet peppers are a good source of vitamin C, which will help your child soak up the iron in this pasta salad and strengthens the immune system.

Tasty Pizza Pasta Salad

How to make this pizza pasta salad?

Step 1: Prepare the pasta

Cook the pasta according to the package directions. Drain, rinse, and let cool.

Step 2: Mix ingredients together

Next just mix the cooled pasta, cheese, peppers, olives, tomatoes, pepperoni, onion and dressing in large bowl.

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Delicious Pizza Pasta Salad

Pizza Pasta Salad

Amber Gray
All your favorite pizza toppings, but in a fun make-ahead pasta salad that’s perfect for lunchboxes and as a side dish!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Lunch, Lunchbox Ideas
Servings 8 servings
Calories 385 kcal

Equipment

  • EasyLunchboxes

Ingredients
  

Pizza Pasta Salad

  • 1 16 oz. box rotini pasta
  • 4 ounces Monterrey jack cheese cubed
  • 3 mini sweet peppers sliced
  • 1 2.25 oz. can sliced olived, drained
  • 3/4 cup Nature Fresh Farms Tomberry tomatoes
  • 1/4 cup mini pepperoni slices
  • 1/4 small sweet onion chopped
  • 1/4 cup Litehouse® Italian dressing

Lunchbox Sides (per serving)

  • 1/4 cup baby carrots
  • 1 stalk celery cut into 2-inch sections
  • 1 1.5 oz. Litehouse® Homestyle Ranch Dip cup
  • 1 Crispy Green® crispy fruit

Instructions
 

  • Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain, rinse and let cool.
  • Mix pasta, cheese, peppers, olives, tomatoes, pepperoni, onion and dressing in large bowl.
  • Assemble lunchbox with pasta salad, carrots, celery, Ranch and crispy fruit.

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Keyword healthy lunch, pasta, pasta salad, pizza, salad