Garden pasta salad.
Hey everyone, it's Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, garden pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have garden pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Garden pasta salad:
- {Take 1 medium of cucumber.
- {Make ready 1 medium of yellow summer squash.
- {Take 1 medium of zucchini.
- {Take 1 medium of sweet red pepper.
- {Take 1 medium of green pepper.
- {Make ready 4 cup of fresh broccoli florets.
- {Take 3 cup of fresh cauliflowerets.
- {Take 1 small of red onion finely copped.
- {Make ready 2 packages of Italian salad dressing mix.
- {Get 4 1/2 cup of uncooked bow tow pasta or your choice of noodles.... I tried wheat noodles this time :-).
- {Make ready 1/4 cup of olive oil.
- {Take 1/4 cup of red wine vinegar.
- {Get 3/4 tsp of salt.
- {Prepare 1/2 tsp of pepper.
- {Make ready 1 cup of *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons.
- {Prepare 3/4 cup of **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms.
- {Prepare 3/4 cup of **optional**diced tomatoes.
- {Get 1/2 cup of **optional ** sliced or diced depending on taste and size celery.
Instructions to make Garden pasta salad:
- wash the first 5 ingredients, but do not dry: chop and transfer to a large Bowl. add the remaining vegetables ( not tomatoes or mushrooms yet, they should be added just before serving). sprinkle with dry dressing mix; toss to coat. refrigerate , covered , 4~6 he's or overnight..
- cook pasta according to package. drain. rinse with cold water. add to the vegetable mixture. in a small bowl , whisk together the remaining ingredients. add to the salad : toss to cost..
- if desired , add the optional ingredients, toss again. serve and enjoy !.
- prep time : about 30 minutes, plus chilling time, plus pasta cooking time ( about 10~ 15 minutes ).
- makes about 24 1 cup servings.
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