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 cook Summer Pasta Salad using 9 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Summer Pasta Salad
- Prepare 1/2 box of pasta, your choice.
- You need 1 Can of Chick Peas or Kidney Beans.
- You need 1 of chopped head of broccoli.
- You need 3 of chopped stalks celery.
- It's 2 of chopped tomatoes.
- It's 1 Can of chopped olives.
- It's 1/2 cup of Mayonnaise.
- It's 1 tbsp of Half and Half.
- Prepare of Salt and Cayenne Pepper.
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 instructions
- Boil pasta. Drain and cool.
- Mix vegetables and pasta in large bowl. Mix in mayo, Half and Half, and spices..
- Chill and serve..
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.
