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. Chicken pasta salad bursting with cheddar, bacon, and ranch!
Obviously, I need to be making this year round.
First let's talk about the dressing.
Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad: a quick, easy & creamy pasta salad with cheddar cheese, bacon, peas & ranch seasoning all tossed together for a great potluck dish!
You can have Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve 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.
- It's 6 slices of cooked bacon, diced.
- You need 2-3 of small tomatoes, seeded & diced.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of fresh broccoli, chopped.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of red onions, diced.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of black olives.
- You need 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of creamy ranch dressing.
- You need 1 clove of garlic, minced.
- Prepare 1/2-1 teaspoon of oregano.
This Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad might have a little edge on the tuna salad because it is loaded with bacon and ranch seasoning. I love cold pasta salads and this creamy bacon cheddar ranch pasta salad is amongst my favs. I mean can you really go wrong with bacon, cheddar and ranch?? The fresh onions, garlic, tomatoes, broccoli and olives really makes this pasta salad pops.
Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad step by step
- 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....
This pasta salad is made with ranch dressing instead (even lite ranch tastes great in this recipe). This pasta salad is so easy and quick to make you'll love adding it to your menus. While this recipe is absolutely delicious cold, you can certainly microwave the bowl and serve it warm for dinner too. Quick and easy, this Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad features rotini pasta, crispy bacon, cheddar, broccoli and more, coated in perfectly creamy Ranch Dressing. Pasta salads are only as good as their.
