Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, garden pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Swings, Dining Sets, Garden Rooms, Arbours, Parasols & Benches Cook pasta in large pot of boiling water until al dente. Rinse under cold water, and drain. Drain and put into a large pasta bowl. Drain the vegetables and add to the pasta together with the tomatoes.
Garden pasta salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Garden pasta salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have garden pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Garden pasta salad:
- Make ready 1 medium cucumber
- Prepare 1 medium yellow summer squash
- Get 1 medium zucchini
- Get 1 medium sweet red pepper
- Prepare 1 medium green pepper
- Prepare 4 cup fresh broccoli florets
- Take 3 cup fresh cauliflowerets
- Take 1 small red onion finely copped
- Make ready 2 packages Italian salad dressing mix
- Make ready 4 1⁄2 cup uncooked bow tow pasta or your choice of noodles…. I tried wheat noodles this time :-)
- Take 1⁄4 cup olive oil
- Take 1⁄4 cup red wine vinegar
- Make ready 3⁄4 tsp salt
- Get 1⁄2 tsp pepper
- Get 1 cup *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons
- Get 3⁄4 cup **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms
- Take 3⁄4 cup optionaldiced tomatoes
- Get 1⁄2 cup **optional ** sliced or diced depending on taste and size celery
Add the pasta and toss to coat. Add tomatoes, bell pepper, carrots, scallions, olives and basil; toss to coat well. Directions Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the broccoli, carrots, peppers and zucchini.
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
Directions Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the broccoli, carrots, peppers and zucchini. Drain and rinse pasta in cold water; add to vegetables. This pasta salad is a delicious and cooling recipe for the summer, it allows you to use up the produce you have in hand and have fridge food ready for days! Enjoy this veggie pesto pasta salad with cucumber, peas, cherry tomatoes and basil for an easy family meal.
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