Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pimento cheese pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Make a dish that's perfect for your next barbecue with our Pimento-Cheese Pasta Salad. Featuring cheddar cheese, Dijon mustard, fresh chives and more, this flavorful pimento cheese pasta salad is perfect for sharing. Once macaroni is cooked, drain and rinse macaroni (in a colander) under cool water. Drain well and pour into a large bowl.
Pimento cheese pasta salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Pimento cheese pasta salad is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pimento cheese pasta salad using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pimento cheese pasta salad:
- Get shredded white cheddar (not pre shredded)
- Get diced pimentos
- Prepare finely diced pickled jalapeño
- Make ready real mayo
- Take ranch dressing packet
- Take chopped chives and reserve some to top it with
- Get finely chopped bacon, and reserve extra to top it with
- Make ready elbow macaroni
While the pasta is cooking, mix up the dressing. Whisk together the mayo, yogurt, mustard, chives, pickle juice, pimento juice, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper and smoked paprika until creamy. This pimento cheese pasta salad is the perfect summer side dish! All the flavor of pimento cheese and all the comforts of pasta salad, in one bowl!
Instructions to make Pimento cheese pasta salad:
- Start by cooking the pasta. Make sure to add salt to the water. After its cooked be sure to run it under cold water to stop the cooking
- Add all the ingredients except for the pasta in a large bowl and mix really well. You want the cheese to really become incorporated.
- Add the pasta and mix really well. Put it in the fridge and let it marry for 4 hours for heat results. When ready to serve top with chives and bacon.
This pimento cheese pasta salad is the perfect summer side dish! All the flavor of pimento cheese and all the comforts of pasta salad, in one bowl! It's no secret - I love a somewhat "different" pasta salad. I never gravitate towards the traditional pasta salad or macaroni salad that you may find at cookouts or summer BBQs. Combine ingredients for vinaigrette and whisk well.
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