Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad
Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
  1. Take 3 cups bow-tie pasta, uncooked
  2. Make ready 2/3 cup cheddar cheese crumbles
  3. Make ready 6 slices cooked bacon, diced
  4. Get 2-3 small tomatoes, seeded & diced
  5. Prepare 2/3 cup fresh broccoli, chopped
  6. Take 2/3 cup red onions, diced
  7. Take 1/3 cup black olives
  8. Make ready 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  9. Take 1/2 cup creamy ranch dressing
  10. Prepare 1 clove garlic, minced
  11. Make ready 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:
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Serve immediately.
  4. 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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