Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Make this delicious cold pasta salad for your parties or potlucks! This creamy pasta salad is loaded with shredded cheddar cheese, bacon, green onions and crumbled potato chips. This pasta salad recipe takes about twenty minutes to prepare and serves eight people.
Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Prepare 3 cups bow-tie pasta, uncooked
- Take 2/3 cup cheddar cheese crumbles
- Get 6 slices cooked bacon, diced
- Take 2-3 small tomatoes, seeded & diced
- Take 2/3 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
- Make ready 2/3 cup red onions, diced
- Get 1/3 cup black olives
- Take 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- Prepare 1/2 cup creamy ranch dressing
- Take 1 clove garlic, minced
- Make ready 1/2-1 teaspoon oregano
This girl is not a huge fan of mayonnaise, so I wanted to come up with a creamy pasta salad that had a little bit more flare to it than other easy pasta salad. Cook the pasta according to the directions on the package, adding a generous tablespoon or so of kosher salt to the water as it cooks. When the pasta is tender, rinse well with cold water. While the pasta is cooking, rinse the peas to thaw them.
Instructions to make Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Cook pasta until al dente. Be careful not overcook. - Drain pasta and rinse with cold water until pasta is cool. - Add drained pasta to a large bowl. - Add in the bacon, broccoli, red onions, black olives, and tomatoes. - essing in with the pasta mixture until well coated.
- Toss to combine. (you may need to add a tiny bit of water to moisten the pasta if it's too sticky to toss) - In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, ranch dressing, garlic and oregano. - When ready to serve, mix the dressing
- Serve immediately.
- Notes- when I made this I was low on ingredients so I substitute it for lettuce, and my kids don’t black olives so I left it out. I just used ranch because I have no mayo…
This Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad is going to be your new favorite side dish to take to a party, a potluck, a bbq…or to eat all all alone. Place bacon in a skillet over medium-high heat and cook until evenly brown. In a large bowl, mix mayonnaise, ranch dressing mix and garlic powder. Add bacon, tomato, black olives and cheese and toss to coat with dressing. I mean, this is a bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad with bits of juicy chicken inside.
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