Recipe: Appetizing Pasta Salad

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Pasta Salad. Pasta Salad Recipes Find an easy pasta salad recipe for your picnic or potluck. Remember that the pasta will plump as it cooks, and you want pasta salad to have a generous combination of pasta and vegetables in each bite. Pasta salad is the perfect party food.

Pasta Salad Whether you're looking for healthy recipes and guides, family projects and meal plans, the latest gadget reviews, foodie travel inspiration or just the perfect recipe for dinner tonight, we're here to help. This pleasing pasta salad is like eating a BLT in a bowl. Filled with crispy bacon, chopped tomato, celery and green onion, the sensational salad is coated with a tangy mayonnaise and vinegar dressing. You can cook Pasta Salad using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pasta Salad

  1. It's 1 box of Betty Crocker Suddenly Salad Classic pasta mix.
  2. It's 3 tbsp of Water.
  3. It's 2 tbsp of Oil.
  4. It's 1 cup of Chopped Tomatoes.
  5. It's 1/2 cup of Chopped Cucumbers.
  6. Prepare 1/4 cup of Sliced Green Olives.
  7. It's 3 tbsp of Feta Cheese Crumbles.

It's a real crowd-pleaser! —Norene Wright, Manilla, Indiana For your next potluck or picnic, make a delicious and easy pasta salad. With so many varieties—Italian pasta salad, chicken pasta salad, and other party-ready recipes—there's no need to rely on the same recipe every time. Switch it up with our pasta salads featuring fresh veggies and flavorful herbs. The veggies match the colors in the tri-colored pasta.

Pasta Salad step by step

  1. Boil pasta for 11 minutes.
  2. In large bowl, stir together seasoning mix (found in box), water and oil..
  3. Drain pasta, then add to bowl with seasoning mix. Also stir in tomatoes, cucumbers and olives..
  4. Sprinkle with cheese. Serve immediately or refrigerate..

And the dressing is real zesty and spicy. So when all three - pasta, veggies and dressing - come together, you have a festive, tasty and beautiful salad for six. The ultimate in light, convenience cooking, pasta salad is the ideal take-along for workplace lunches and weekend picnics. The bits of bright red and green in this easy macaroni salad remind me of fun confetti. The inspiration for the dish came from a recipe I found in a church cookbook when I was a young writer responsible for a newspaper's food section.