Garden pasta salad.
Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, garden pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Garden pasta salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It's appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it's fast, it tastes yummy. Garden pasta salad is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have garden pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Garden pasta salad:
- {Make ready 1 medium of cucumber.
- {Prepare 1 medium of yellow summer squash.
- {Take 1 medium of zucchini.
- {Prepare 1 medium of sweet red pepper.
- {Get 1 medium of green pepper.
- {Get 4 cup of fresh broccoli florets.
- {Make ready 3 cup of fresh cauliflowerets.
- {Take 1 small of red onion finely copped.
- {Prepare 2 packages of Italian salad dressing mix.
- {Prepare 4 1/2 cup of uncooked bow tow pasta or your choice of noodles.... I tried wheat noodles this time :-).
- {Take 1/4 cup of olive oil.
- {Make ready 1/4 cup of red wine vinegar.
- {Take 3/4 tsp of salt.
- {Make ready 1/2 tsp of pepper.
- {Prepare 1 cup of *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons.
- {Get 3/4 cup of **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms.
- {Get 3/4 cup of **optional**diced tomatoes.
- {Make ready 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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