Italian Pasta Salad

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2018, America's Test Kitchen TV

Our fixes: Overcook the noodles. Raid the pantry. Puree the dressing.

SERVES 8 to 10 as a side dish

TIME 1 hour

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a better, more worthwhile pasta salad, we used corkscrew-shaped fusilli, which had plenty of surface area for capturing dressing. We cooked the pasta until it was a little too soft so that as it cooled and firmed up, it would have just ...

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