Print: Home Town Drive-In Pasta Salad

This hometown drive-in pasta salad recipe is from a small drive-in dairy bar in our town, which has been closed for some time. My kids really missed their pasta salad, but the ingredients were listed on a board inside the drive-in, so I worked on trying to recreate it. It's finally right, and I thought I would share it. We like this at room temperature, but it certainly can be refrigerated.

Prep

21 min

Cook

11 min

Servings

Difficulty

Medium

Ingredients

1 , 12 ounce
0.25 cups white sugar
2 tablespoons hot water
1 teaspoon salt
0.25 cups white vinegar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon dried oregano
1 large tomato , diced
1 red bell pepper , diced
0.25 cups finely diced sweet onion
1 , 8 ounce
ground black pepper to taste , Optional

Instructions

1 Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil; cook rotini at a boil until tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes. Drain; rinse with cold water to cool. Set aside.
2 Whisk sugar, water, and salt together in a large bowl until sugar dissolves; whisk in vinegar, oil, and oregano. Stir tomato, bell pepper, and onion into vinaigrette; gently fold in cheese and rotini. Season salad with black pepper.

Nutrition per serving

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