Conner’s Birthday Pasta Salad

Description

I needed a quick and easy side dish to take to our friend’s house for their son’s birthday. This dish needed to be something that would be able to be outside and be pretty, so this is what I came up with. The variety of ingredients all tied together with the salad dressing was perfect, so much so that I took home an empty bowl!

Ingredients

  • 1 (16 ounce) package tri-color rotini pasta
  • 1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, drained
  • 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 1 green bell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • ½ cup stuffed green olives, halved
  • ½ cup ripe olives, drained and halved
  • 4 ounces Cheddar cheese, cut into 1-inch cubes
  • 4 ounces precooked chicken sausage, cut into 1-inch cubes
  • 1 (16 ounce) bottle Italian dressing (such as Ken’s Steak House Lite Northern Italian Dressing®)

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 2 hrs 25 mins

Servings: 6

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