Summer Pasta Salad. Pasta salad is on the menu in a big way this summer. Not content with mere side dish status, the best pasta salads are busting out main-dish moves with bold tastes and textures. Take a look at some of our favorite main dish pasta salad recipes to make this summer.
Cold pasta salads are not only creamy and delicious—and a great way to get garden vegetables into a dish the kids will eat—but they're also the ideal barbecue side dish for summer, because they're meant to be served chilled. Transform the classic sandwich into a picnic-perfect pasta salad: Crispy bacon, ripe summer tomatoes and fresh lettuce pop against the creamy pasta spirals. Pasta Salads are a cinch to make and a great way to show off summer veggies. You can have Summer Pasta Salad using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Summer Pasta Salad
- Prepare 1 of For the cooked pasta of you choice... cold, (leftover) or cold freshly cooked.
- It's 8 of grilled chicken wings (cold, leftover).
- Prepare 1 lb of of cooked pasta...of your choice.
- You need 4 of ears of grill roasted corn on the cob.
Add some grilled chicken or shrimp, and you've got the makings of a satisfying meal. What really sets a good pasta apart though is a great, creamy dressing. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Shrimp, Lemon & Gemelli Party Pasta Salad Recipe Dill, mustard, and capers are just a few of the flavors that spice up this easy to make pasta salad.
Summer Pasta Salad step by step
- De-bone the chicken wings, cut the meat bite size.
- Cut corn from the cob.
- Add pasta that is cold ...(leftover or freshly made & chilled).
- Place all ingredients in a medium sized bowl...add dressing of choice...toss lightly...serve....dig in & enjoy....
Take a bite out of summer with these small pasta salad recipes! A friend served this BLT pasta salad, and I just had to get the recipe. My husband loves BLT sandwiches, so this has become a favorite of his. Summer means cookouts, and cookouts mean pasta salad. We're bringing our favorite kinds of pasta salad to the table and letting the mayo and no-mayo renditions duke it out once and for all.
