RANCH PASTA SALAD – The Southern Girl Cooks

This Ranch Pasta Salad is one you’ll make again and again. It’s tremendous versatile and an exquisite favourite yr spherical. The home made dressing is a recreation changer!

If you happen to love pasta salads it would be best to do this Bow Tie Pasta Salad! It’s loaded in greens and excellent for any gathering.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

We love the home made Ranch on this salad, it simply provides it an ideal taste and actually blends the greens. You may at all times add pepperoni, rotisserie hen, chopped ham to this salad to make it extra of a meal. Tremendous versatile and at all times successful!

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

• Rotini pasta (might use any form of pasta you want)
• Ripe olives, weight 6 ounces, drained, chopped (non-compulsory)
• Actual bacon bits
• Sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
• Inexperienced onion, chopped (or about 3 onions)
• Cherry tomatoes, minimize in half (might use extra or 1 giant tomato, chopped and drained)
• Cucumber, coarsely chopped

Dressing Elements:

• Mayonnaise or salad dressing (your choice)
• Buttermilk
• Bitter cream
• Dried parsley flakes
• Garlic powder
• Black pepper
• Salt
• Dillweed

SWAPS

You’ll be able to add any greens you prefer to this and take away any you don’t. It’s a salad that may work with absolutely anything, and it’s at all times successful!

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

This salad is tremendous straightforward, the longest half is taking the time to cut up all of the scrumptious greens!

Step 1
Put together pasta in response to bundle instructions for salad pasta draining and working underneath chilly water.  Let pasta cool when you put together different components.

Step 2
Combine all collectively in a big salad bowl and add home made ranch dressing made with recipe beneath.  

Step 3
Let cool within the fridge for a number of hours earlier than serving or in a single day. 

⭐TIP

This salad will maintain for a number of days within the fridge, if it turns into dry simply add some mayo. Additionally this dressing is one in every of our favorites, you an double it and put it in a mason jar and revel in it on different salads, dip veggies in it, and many others.

OTHER RANCH SALADS

STORING & SERVING SIZE

We retailer this in an air tight container within the fridge and it makes about 10-12 servings.

Ranch Pasta Salad

Anne Walkup

This ranch pasta salad is so refreshing on a summer season day. Make this to get pleasure from with household and associates for any gathering. The ranch dressing is scrumptious too!

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

let chill in a single day or a number of hours 4 hours hrs

Complete Time 4 hours hrs 20 minutes minutes

Course Salad

Delicacies American, southern

• 8 ounces salad rotini pasta might use any form of pasta you want
• 1 can medium pitted ripe olives weight 6 ounces, drained, chopped
• 1/4 cup actual bacon bits
• 1 cup sharp cheddar cheese shredded
• 1/2 cup inexperienced onion chopped (or about 3 onions)
• 12 cherry tomatoes minimize in half (might use extra or 1 giant tomato, chopped and drained)
• 1 cup cucumber coarsely chopped

Ranch Dressing Elements

• 1/4 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing your choice
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup bitter cream
• 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon dillweed

• Put together pasta in response to bundle instructions for salad pasta draining and working underneath chilly water. Let pasta cool when you put together different components.

• Combine all collectively in a big salad bowl and add home made ranch dressing made with recipe beneath. Let cool in fridge for a number of hours earlier than serving or in a single day. Makes about 10 to 12 servings. Serve over lettuce or as is. (Be aware: This salad will maintain within the fridge for a number of days. If turns into dry after a number of days, add extra mayo.)

Can simply add cooked hen, pepperoni, salami, ham, and many others. 

Key phrase ranch pasta salad

Tell us by commenting beneath!

Follow us on Pinterest!

© The Southern Girl Cooks images and textual content – All rights reserved. No copying, posting on different websites, or different makes use of allowed with out written permission of the copyright holder.