Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, blt ranch pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
BLT Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. BLT Ranch Pasta Salad is something that I have loved my whole life.
This is an easy but flavorful pasta salad that I'm always asked to bring to potlucks. With chunks of onion, tomato, and bacon, smothered in Ranch dressing, it is full of flavor! This salad tastes best if made several hours ahead of time.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have blt ranch pasta salad using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make BLT Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Take 1 pound bacon, chopped and fried crisp
- Prepare 12-16 ounce pasta, cooked well
- Take 1-2 large firm tomatoes, diced
- Make ready 1 bunch green onions, diced
- Get 1 cup mayonnaise
- Prepare 1/2 cup ranch dressing
- Prepare 1/2 cup milk
- Make ready 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- Get 1 teaspoon dill weed
It's crumbled bacon, chopped lettuce, cherry tomatoes, & cooked pasta coated in ranch dressing. The hardest part is cooking and crumbling the bacon without eating it all before it. Bacon and pasta lovers will love this BLT Pasta Salad!. The combination of textures from the bowtie pasta, romaine lettuce, bacon, and homemade croutons are tossed together with a tasty homemade ranch dressing.
Steps to make BLT Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Cook pasta, a little over cooked is best because it firms up when chilled. Rinse in cold water and leave to drain well.
- Chop and cook bacon until crisp and drain on paper towels.
- Mix remaining ingredients in a large bowl.
- Add in cooled pasta and bacon.
- Mix well and serve immediately or store to let flavors blend.
- Great as is, or over some greens of your choosing. I had baby spinach on hand, so that's what I used. I also used a 12 ounce box of bow tie pasta this time, but I also love this salad with small-medium shell pasta, but anything you like will work.
This salad is a flavor burst in your mouth that you will look forward to every time you make it. This Ranch BLT Pasta salad is also a great potluck dish and can really serve quite a few if you double or triple this recipe (as most pasta dishes do). Recently some friends and I made the recipe this way and we finished off the whole bowl together, with some to spare. In a separate bowl, add the ranch dressing, barbecue sauce, and pepper and stir to combine. Evenly drizzle over the bacon ranch pasta salad.
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