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Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Make ready 3 cups bow-tie pasta, uncooked
- Take 2/3 cup cheddar cheese crumbles
- Get 6 slices cooked bacon, diced
- Get 2-3 small tomatoes, seeded & diced
- Make ready 2/3 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
- Take 2/3 cup red onions, diced
- Make ready 1/3 cup black olives
- Get 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- Take 1/2 cup creamy ranch dressing
- Make ready 1 clove garlic, minced
- Make ready 1/2-1 teaspoon oregano
The ranch-mayo dressing is the perfect balance to provide flavor and creaminess without overpowering the other ingredients. Heck, it's even great just on Saturdays! 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. I mean, this is a bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad with bits of juicy chicken inside.
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…
Obviously, I need to be making this year round. First let's talk about the dressing. Pasta salad dressing: Pasta salad is often dressed with an Italian sort of dressing - olive oil, vinegar, and some herbs. Bacon Ranch 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.
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