Here’s how to make the best pasta salad ever: Luckily, our super easy pasta salad recipe can be made ahead, so you can tackle that water-boiling effort during the cool morning hours, and enjoy a chilled, cool-from-the-fridge bowl of this easy Mediterranean pasta salad later in the day when the air is thick with summer heat.
The hardest thing about making pasta salad is mustering the strength to boil water on a hot day. We like to include cubed salami just for extra saltiness and heft, but if you want to make this a vegetarian pasta salad, just leave it out! Or, if you’re making this to bring to a party where you’re not sure about people’s dietary preferences, you could bring the cubed salami to serve on the side–that way people who’d like it can add it to their serving, and those who don’t can skip it!
Any great pasta salad recipe is essentially a flexible formula-pasta salad is a wonderful blank canvas.