Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The trick is to use the shredded SHARP cheddar cheese. A mild or medium just doesn't hold up to the myriad of flavors in this salad. This creamy, cold pasta salad is bursting with fresh ingredients like tomatoes, broccoli, crisp bacon, cheddar, olives and red onions.
Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must 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:
- Prepare 3 cups bow-tie pasta, uncooked
- Take 2/3 cup cheddar cheese crumbles
- Make ready 6 slices cooked bacon, diced
- Take 2-3 small tomatoes, seeded & diced
- Make ready 2/3 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
- Take 2/3 cup red onions, diced
- Prepare 1/3 cup black olives
- Get 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- Make ready 1/2 cup creamy ranch dressing
- Take 1 clove garlic, minced
- Take 1/2-1 teaspoon oregano
Stir until pasta is completely coated in dressing. I love cold pasta salads and this creamy bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad is amongst my favs. I mean can you really go wrong with bacon, cheddar and ranch?? The fresh onions, garlic, tomatoes, broccoli and olives really makes this pasta salad pops.
Steps 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…
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