Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, garden pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cook pasta in large pot of boiling water until al dente. Rinse under cold water, and drain. Cook pasta in large pot of boiling water until al dente. Rinse under cold water, and drain.
Garden pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Garden pasta salad is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have garden pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Garden pasta salad:
- Prepare cucumber
- Get yellow summer squash
- Get zucchini
- Make ready sweet red pepper
- Take green pepper
- Take fresh broccoli florets
- Make ready fresh cauliflowerets
- Make ready red onion finely copped
- Prepare Italian salad dressing mix
- Make ready uncooked bow tow pasta or your choice of noodles…. I tried wheat noodles this time :-)
- Get olive oil
- Get red wine vinegar
- Take salt
- Get pepper
- Make ready *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons
- Make ready **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms
- Prepare optionaldiced tomatoes
- Get **optional ** sliced or diced depending on taste and size celery
Serve on a crisp bed of greens. Toss in canned chunk light tuna, cooked chicken or flavored baked tofu to add protein and make it more substantial. Vegetables will lightly steam in pasta. Place pasta in a large salad bowl.
Steps to make Garden pasta salad:
- wash the first 5 ingredients, but do not dry: chop and transfer to a large Bowl. add the remaining vegetables ( not tomatoes or mushrooms yet, they should be added just before serving). sprinkle with dry dressing mix; toss to coat. refrigerate , covered , 4~6 he's or overnight.
- cook pasta according to package. drain. rinse with cold water. add to the vegetable mixture. in a small bowl , whisk together the remaining ingredients. add to the salad : toss to cost.
- if desired , add the optional ingredients, toss again. serve and enjoy !
- prep time : about 30 minutes, plus chilling time, plus pasta cooking time ( about 10~ 15 minutes )
- makes about 24 1 cup servings
Vegetables will lightly steam in pasta. Place pasta in a large salad bowl. Top with three-fourths of the dressing and lightly toss. Directions Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the broccoli, carrots, peppers and zucchini.
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