Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, brad's easter pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have brad's easter pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Brad's Easter pasta salad:
- Get 12 Oz small shell pasta
- Take 2 Roma tomatoes, diced
- Make ready 1 LG ham steak
- Take 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- Take 1 LG can black pitted olives, sliced
- Prepare 5 sprigs fresh dill, chopped
- Make ready Juice of half a lemon
- Prepare 1/4 cup ranch dressing
- Make ready Mayonnaise
- Get 1/2 tsp garlic powder, dry mustard, black pepper
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Instructions to make Brad's Easter pasta salad:
- Bring 4 qts water, 1 tbs oil, 1 tbs kosher salt to a rolling boil. Add pasta. Cook 8 minutes to al dente. Drain and rinse with cold water.
- When drained, add to a large mixing bowl. Add tomatoes, olives, and lemon juice. Mix well and let acids blend for a few minutes.
- Heat a dry pan on medium heat. Fry ham steak until browned on both sides. Remove and cool. Trim any fat and bone. Dice ham and add to pasta.
- Add rest of ingredients except mayo. Mix well.
- Use mayo to bring to desired creaminess. I used about a third of a cup.
- Refrigerate an hour before serving. Garnish with fresh dill. Enjoy.
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