Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad. Read Customer Reviews & Find Best Sellers. Make this delicious cold pasta salad for your parties or potlucks! This creamy pasta salad is loaded with shredded cheddar cheese, bacon, green onions and crumbled potato chips.
The ranch-mayo dressing is the perfect balance to provide flavor and creaminess without overpowering the other ingredients.
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You can cook Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad
- You need 3 cups of bow-tie pasta, uncooked.
- You need 2/3 cup of cheddar cheese crumbles.
- You need 6 slices of cooked bacon, diced.
- Prepare 2-3 of small tomatoes, seeded & diced.
- You need 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.
- It's 1/2 cup of creamy ranch dressing.
- Prepare 1 clove of garlic, minced.
- Prepare 1/2-1 teaspoon of oregano.
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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....
Heck, it's even great just on Saturdays! This girl is not a huge fan of mayonnaise, so I wanted to come up with a creamy pasta salad that had a little bit more flare to it than other easy pasta salad. Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad Cook the pasta according to the directions on the package, adding a generous tablespoon or so of kosher salt to the water as it cooks. When the pasta is tender, rinse well with cold water. 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!