Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, creamy pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Creamy Pasta Salad "I love creating new and tasty foods, including this popular side-dish salad," Lori Menard writes from Omaha, Nebraska. "I make it often for my husband and me, especially during the summer months. If you add some cooked chicken breast, you can make this a meal for two." Classic Creamy Pasta Salad. From backyard barbecues to summer dinners, pasta salad is a staple. There's just something about the taste of creamy, flavorful pasta mixed with finely diced veggies.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook creamy pasta salad using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Pasta Salad:
- Take Pasta Salad :
- Get 1/3 cup elbow pasta, uncooked
- Make ready 1/4 cup peas (I use frozen)
- Get 1 small carrot, peeled and shredded
- Prepare 1 small chicken breast, grilled and diced
- Prepare 1 tbsp. freshly shredded white cheddar cheese
- Take Dressing :
- Make ready 1 tbsp. mayo
- Make ready 1 tbsp. sour cream
- Make ready 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp. honey
- Prepare To taste salt and pepper, garlic powder
Using whole-wheat pasta and loading it with plenty of vegetables makes it as nutritious as it is delicious. If you have fresh-shelled peas on hand, use those instead of frozen peas. Cook pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water according to package instructions. Drain, rinse with cold water, and set aside to cool completely.
Steps to make Creamy Pasta Salad:
- In a smalk bowl, whisk together the mayo, sour cream, apple cider vinegar, honey and salt and pepper and garlic powder to taste. Set this aside.
- Cook the pasta according to the package directions to al dente. In the last two minutes of cook time, stir in the peas.
- Drain the pasta and peas into a colander and rinse with cold water.
- In a large bowl, mix together the pasta, peas, shredded carrot, shredded cheese and diced chicken. Pour the dressing over the top and stir it in. Taste for any additional seasoning you'd like to add.
- You can eat this immediately or you can chill in the fridge until you're ready.
Cook pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water according to package instructions. Drain, rinse with cold water, and set aside to cool completely. While the pasta cooks, prepare the dressing by whisking together Creamy Italian salad dressing and mayonnaise. Cook pasta per package directions and rinse with cold water; set aside. In a separate bowl, use a whisk to mix sour cream, mayonnaise dressing, celery seed, onion powder and ground mustard.
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