Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. 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. The ranch-mayo dressing is the perfect balance to provide flavor and creaminess without overpowering the other ingredients.
Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. 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 are fine 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 cook it.
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
- Get 2-3 small tomatoes, seeded & diced
- Prepare 2/3 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
- Prepare 2/3 cup red onions, diced
- Prepare 1/3 cup black olives
- Get 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- Take 1/2 cup creamy ranch dressing
- Prepare 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.
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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