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Easy Muffuletta Salad Recipe -Jazzed Up Amazing Muffuletta Pasta Salad

January 13, 2025 by Holly Clegg Leave a Comment

Easy Muffuletta Salad Recipe Jazzed Up with Shrimp and Pasta!

Because of her love for the New Orleans’ Italian Sandwich, Holly decided to create an easy Muffuletta salad recipe for the Too Hot in the Kitchen cookbook with all the components of this amazing classic sandwich. She turned this heavy, complex Italian sandwich into a simple Muffuletta Pasta Salad using an olive salad mix for a winning recipe. With its New Olreans roots, this salad along with other Mardi Gras recipes makes for a fun addition to your Mardi Gras menu!

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Muffuletta Salad from Holly Clegg’s Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secrets to Sizzle at Any Age

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Muffuletta Salad
All the components of a muffaletta, an Italian signature sandwich of New Orleans, tossed together in an amazing crowd pleasing salad. Olive salad, the key ingredient, is found in a jar- if not available, raid olive salad bar and chop finely. Another great muffuletta recipe are my Mini Muffulettas!
Servings 8 (1-cup) servings
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup olive salad mix drained
  • 3/4 cup chopped red onion
  • 1/3 cup crumbled reduced-fat feta cheese
  • 1 pound seasoned cooked shrimp optional
  • 6 cups cooked orzo pasta
  • 3-4 ounces prosciutto chopped
  • 1 can artichoke hearts drained and chopped, 14-ounce
  • 1/2 cup chopped roasted red pepper found in jar
Servings 8 (1-cup) servings
Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup olive salad mix drained
  • 3/4 cup chopped red onion
  • 1/3 cup crumbled reduced-fat feta cheese
  • 1 pound seasoned cooked shrimp optional
  • 6 cups cooked orzo pasta
  • 3-4 ounces prosciutto chopped
  • 1 can artichoke hearts drained and chopped, 14-ounce
  • 1/2 cup chopped roasted red pepper found in jar
Instructions
  1. 1. In large bowl, mix together all ingredients, adding shrimp if desired. Refrigerate until serving.
Nutritional Info

Calories 328 Calories from fat 37% Fat 13g Saturated Fat 1g Cholesterol 12mg Sodium 689mg Carbohydrate 40g Dietary Fiber 2g Sugars 3g Protein 11g Dietary Exchanges: 2 starch, 1/2 other carbohydrate, 1 lean meat, 2 fat

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Olive Salad Mix Key To Easy Muffuletta Salad Recipe

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Why worry about making a muffuletta olive salad mix recipe when you can buy a pre-made olive salad mix in the store. In Louisiana, this product is easily found but here’s the olive salad mix link for you. If you look online, you’ll find tons of olive salad mix recipes. This olive salad mix is also perfect for Holly’s favorite Mini Muffuletta recipe!

This olive mix is an important component of the recipe. If you don’t want to buy the product, go raid a salad bar.  Buy an assortment of olives, olive salad mix and chop the mixture up in the food processor or with a knife for your own muffuletta olive salad recipe to go on this sandwich.

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This cookbook includes an Easy Entertaining Chapter to help you select recipes.  With easy recipes and all include nutritional information, you have fun in the kitchen.  You’ll love all the quotes for good reading material.

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While You Have Olive Salad Mix Might As Well Make My Mini Muffulettas

You’ll love this simple 4-ingredient Mini Muffuletta recipe from Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook for a quick snack, lunch or to celebrate Mardi Gras.  This is one of our favorite recipes and you will want to keep these delicious Italian Muffuletta sliders in your freezer!

Use the same your olive salad mix for both the Muffuletta Salad and Mini Muffulettas. 

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Filed Under: Louisiana Recipes, Mardi Gras, Salads, Seasonal Tagged With: easy muffuletta salad, muffuletta pasta salad, muffuletta salad

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