Easy and simple homemade pasta salad

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy and simple homemade pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

In a large bowl, toss the cooked pasta with the Italian dressing, cucumbers, tomatoes, and green onions. In a small bowl, mix the Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning, and gently mix into the salad. A fresh and light salad of Israeli couscous, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, spinach, and herbs drizzled with a tangy citrus dressing. Serve by itself or alongside your favorite protein.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook easy and simple homemade pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy and simple homemade pasta salad:
  1. Get 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise (I used Kraft mayonnaise with olive oil)
  2. Prepare 1⁄4 cup to 1⁄2 cup Ranch dressing depending on your taste (I used Wishbone)
  3. Take 1 cup to 1 1⁄2 cups bow tie pasta
  4. Prepare 1⁄4 cup finely shredded carrot
  5. Prepare salt
  6. Take lemon pepper seasoning
  7. Take Fresh lime juice
  8. Make ready 2 piece chicken breasts (I had small but if you use a large one 1 should be fine)
  9. Make ready Bacon pieces
  10. Prepare 1 cup corn

Colorful Spiral Pasta Salad Tackle gatherings to go with a bright pasta salad. This tricolor toss-up with broccoli, tomatoes, olives and a hardworking dressing is the easiest one you could take. —Amanda Cable, Boxford, Massachusetts In a large bowl, combine pasta, tomatoes, mozzarella, salami, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, olives and onion. Pour over dressing until ingredients are combined and completely coated. Cook the pasta to al la dente based on the package instructions.

Steps to make Easy and simple homemade pasta salad:
  1. Bring a pot of water to boil. Add salt to water to taste. Once boiling add chicken breasts. Boil until cooked through.
  2. When cooked thoroughly remove from water and let sit for 5-10 to cool. To the same water add the pasta, asking more water if needed. You do not need to add more salt because the water is already salted.
  3. While pasta is cooking cut or shred chicken to desired size. Squeeze the fresh lime juice onto the chicken, making sure to combine it well, while it's still warm so that it may soak up the flavor.
  4. After cutting the chicken, grate the carrot in a bowl and add the mayonnaise and ranch dressing letting it sit for a couple of minutes.
  5. When pasta is just tender remove from the water, do not drain it. After removing from water, run it under cold water to stop the cooking process. Let it sit in the strainer and shake to run off excess water.
  6. If you are using frozen corn, as I did, add it tonthe water that you cooked the chicken and pasta in. Cook until heated through usually about 3 min. If you are using can corn you can skip this step.
  7. While the corn is heating up, add the drained pasta to the mayonnaise mixture along with the chicken and lemon pepper. When the corn is done, either run it under cold water as to cool it down, or add to the pasta mixture as is.
  8. Mix all of the ingredients until combined well. Then lastly add in the bacon pieces and mix well. You can eat as in or place in the fridge to serve cold.

Pour over dressing until ingredients are combined and completely coated. Cook the pasta to al la dente based on the package instructions. Drain the pasta immediately and then rinse with cold water until pasta is cooled off. Mix cucumbers, tomatoes, pepperoni and red onion together in a large bowl. Pour in dressing and mix well until all the ingredients are combined.

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