Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta 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. Make this delicious cold pasta salad for your parties or potlucks!
The fresh onions, garlic, tomatoes, broccoli and olives really makes this pasta salad pops. Chicken pasta salad bursting with cheddar, bacon, and ranch! This easy pasta salad is going to be the hit of your next barbecue! You can have Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad
- You need 3 cups of bow-tie pasta, uncooked.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of cheddar cheese crumbles.
- Prepare 6 slices of cooked bacon, diced.
- You need 2-3 of small tomatoes, seeded & diced.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of fresh broccoli, chopped.
- You need 2/3 cup of red onions, diced.
- It's 1/3 cup of black olives.
- You need 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
- You need 1/2 cup of creamy ranch dressing.
- You need 1 clove of garlic, minced.
- You need 1/2-1 teaspoon of oregano.
I think I'm I mean, this is a bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad with bits of juicy chicken inside. Obviously, I need to be making this year round. First let's talk about the dressing. So, to make this bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad you'll need some pasta.
Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad instructions
- 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....
I've used rotini, but any short variety will do. Bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad is perfect for potlucks or a cool summer dinner! Seriously good pasta salad starts with homemade ranch dressing. Here's how to make Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad. Prepare pasta according to package directions.