Red White Blue Tortellini Salad
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings
- Category: Salads
- Method: Stove top
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
1 pkg. refrigerated tortellini
2 drops each super red, royal blue food gel
1/2 cup baby mozzarella pearls
1/2 cup Italian dressing
Optional: 8 slices Swiss cheese star cut outs using mini star cookie cutter
Instructions
- Follow cooking instructions on tortellini packages. Drain and chill.
- In two zip lock bags, place 1/3 of chilled tortellini in each bag.
- Tint one bag with red food gel, repeat with other bag blue gel. Toss to color pasta. (Wear gloves when handling pasta). To Make Kabobs see below or you can serve the tortellini in a large bowl with 2/3 of the cooked tortellini. Do not microwave the pasta mozzarella pearls will melt.
- Keep tinted pasta in bags until serving.
- Place remaining pasta in bowl and add remaining ingredients except colored tortellini. Toss to coat with dressing.
- Spoon colored pasta and mozzarella pearls to dish right before serving.
Making the Kabob Skewer Appetizers
- Wear latex gloves when handling the red and blue tortellini. the food will bleed.
- With frilly red white and blue picks/skewers, thread one red, natural, and blue tortellini on skewer, end with white mozzarella pearl.
- Place tortellini kabab on Vinta cracker to serve. (cracker will protect your board from tinted tortellini)
Notes
Served well chilled, add tinted tortellini right before serving, keep tinted pasta in separate bags or containers as not to mix red with blue.
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