Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
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. The ranch-mayo dressing is the perfect balance to provide flavor and creaminess without overpowering the other ingredients.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Take 3 cups bow-tie pasta, uncooked
- Make ready 2/3 cup cheddar cheese crumbles
- Prepare 6 slices cooked bacon, diced
- Take 2-3 small tomatoes, seeded & diced
- Get 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
- Get 1/2 cup creamy ranch dressing
- Make ready 1 clove garlic, minced
- Prepare 1/2-1 teaspoon oregano
Rinse cooked pasta with cold water to cool it down. Dump cold pasta into a large mixing bowl. Add the mayo and ranch dressing to the bowl. Stir until pasta is completely coated in dressing.
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…
Add the mayo and ranch dressing to the bowl. Stir until pasta is completely coated in dressing. Chicken pasta salad bursting with cheddar, bacon, and ranch! This easy pasta salad is going to be the hit of your next barbecue! I think I'm I mean, this is a bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad with bits of juicy chicken inside.
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