Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This light and refreshing cold pasta salad is loaded with the flavors of the Mediterranean, and pairs well with grilled proteins, such as fish, pork, chicken or steak. If you make this in advance, reserve a bit of the dressing to add right before serving, as the pasta has a tendency to soak up the dressing as it sits over time. Pasta salad is the perfect party food. Choose from among these popular renditions for your next picnic or potluck.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pasta salad using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pasta salad:
- Prepare Dressing:
- Prepare olive oil
- Take apple cider vinegar
- Prepare mayo
- Get spicy mustard
- Take sugar
- Make ready S&P
- Get Salad:
- Take cooked macaroni
- Prepare frozen broccoli
- Get matchstick carrots
- Make ready tomatoes, chopped
- Get sliced black olives, drained
- Take minced garlic
- Prepare chia seeds
- Get sunflower seed kernels
- Take medium onion, diced
- Prepare crumbled feta
- Get cooked bacon, crumbled
This tricolor toss-up with broccoli, tomatoes, olives and a hardworking dressing is the easiest one you could take. —Amanda Cable, Boxford, Massachusetts Pasta salads are a hit at potlucks and picnics or a simple weeknight meal. Find easy and healthy options for pasta salad recipes including Italian, chicken, tortellini, pesto, macaroni, tuna, and more. Pasta salads are great for brunch, ladies luncheons, or light summer suppers. Add protein, such as chopped deli chicken, boiled shrimp, or sliced grilled steak, to turn a quick pasta salad into a main-dish meal.
Instructions to make Pasta salad:
- Cook macaroni according to package.
- While pasta cooks, add all dressing ingredients and whisk together
- In the last 5 minutes of cooking, add broccoli and carrots to boiling water.
- Cook until pasta is al dente
- Rinse pasta and veggies until very cool. Add to dressing.
- Add all other ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Refrigerate over night.
Pasta salads are great for brunch, ladies luncheons, or light summer suppers. Add protein, such as chopped deli chicken, boiled shrimp, or sliced grilled steak, to turn a quick pasta salad into a main-dish meal. Add the tomatoes, cucumber, mozzarella, salami, olives, and parsley. Cold pasta salads are not only creamy and delicious—and a great way to get garden vegetables into a dish, but they're also an ideal barbecue side dish. If you whip up a big batch of pasta ahead of time, you can assemble a pasta salad in minutes.
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