Creamy Pasta Salad
Creamy Pasta Salad

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, creamy pasta salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have creamy pasta salad using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pasta Salad:
  1. Get Pasta Salad :
  2. Make ready 1/3 cup elbow pasta, uncooked
  3. Take 1/4 cup peas (I use frozen)
  4. Take 1 small carrot, peeled and shredded
  5. Prepare 1 small chicken breast, grilled and diced
  6. Prepare 1 tbsp. freshly shredded white cheddar cheese
  7. Make ready Dressing :
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp. mayo
  9. Make ready 1 tbsp. sour cream
  10. Take 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
  11. Take 1 tsp. honey
  12. Prepare To taste salt and pepper, garlic powder

Using whole-wheat pasta and loading it with plenty of vegetables makes it as nutritious as it is delicious. If you have fresh-shelled peas on hand, use those instead of frozen peas. Cook pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water according to package instructions. Drain, rinse with cold water, and set aside to cool completely.

Instructions to make Creamy Pasta Salad:
  1. In a smalk bowl, whisk together the mayo, sour cream, apple cider vinegar, honey and salt and pepper and garlic powder to taste. Set this aside.
  2. Cook the pasta according to the package directions to al dente. In the last two minutes of cook time, stir in the peas.
  3. Drain the pasta and peas into a colander and rinse with cold water.
  4. In a large bowl, mix together the pasta, peas, shredded carrot, shredded cheese and diced chicken. Pour the dressing over the top and stir it in. Taste for any additional seasoning you'd like to add.
  5. You can eat this immediately or you can chill in the fridge until you're ready.

Cook pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water according to package instructions. Drain, rinse with cold water, and set aside to cool completely. While the pasta cooks, prepare the dressing by whisking together Creamy Italian salad dressing and mayonnaise. Cook pasta per package directions and rinse with cold water; set aside. In a separate bowl, use a whisk to mix sour cream, mayonnaise dressing, celery seed, onion powder and ground mustard.

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