Pasta Salad?!
No blue cheese or olives please.
Answers: Whats a good recipe for pasta salads.
No blue cheese or olives please.
My fav is bacon ranch pasta salad.
One pound pasta (shells, elbows, rigatoni, your choice)
One cup frozen peas
one bunch green onions, chopped
one package dry ranch dressing mix
6 slices bacon, (more or less to taste)fried crisp and crumbled
one to two cups real mayonnaise
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
a little milk if needed.
Cook pasta, adding frozen peas to boiling pasta for last 5 minutes. Drain, cool under cold water and combine with remaining ingredients.
If the salad is too dry, add more mayonnaise to taste.
If it is too "thick" add a little milk to thin it slightly.
Refrigerate an hour or so before serving.
If it gets too thick or to dry, correct as above just before serving.
Here you go, no blue cheese or olives included. Hope this helps.
Easy Pasta Salad
INGREDIENTS
1 pound penne pasta
1 head broccoli, cut into florets
1 red bell pepper, julienned
1 (6.5 ounce) jar marinated artichoke hearts
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper to taste
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 minutes. Add broccoli and cook 2 minutes more. Drain pasta and broccoli and rinse with cold water until cool.
In large bowl, combine pasta, broccoli, red bell pepper, the artichoke hearts with their marinade, Parmesan, salt and pepper. Toss, adjust seasoning and serve.
here's a simple one i make... 200g wholemeal pasta cooked al dente and tossed in olive oil, half a red onion chopped, half a cucumber cut into small chunks and 50g sweetcorn... For the dressing 4 tbsp good quality mayo, 2tsp wholegrain mustard, 2tsp honey, lemon juice salt and black pepper... Just mix it all together and leave for at least 2 hours in the fridge... :-)