Easiest Way to Make Perfect Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad

Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad.

You can cook Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad

1. You need 3 cups of bow-tie pasta, uncooked.
2. It's 2/3 cup of cheddar cheese crumbles.
3. Prepare 6 slices of cooked bacon, diced.
4. You need 2-3 of small tomatoes, seeded & diced.
5. You need 2/3 cup of fresh broccoli, chopped.
6. Prepare 2/3 cup of red onions, diced.
7. It's 1/3 cup of black olives.
8. Prepare 1/2 cup of mayonnaise.
9. Prepare 1/2 cup of creamy ranch dressing.
10. You need 1 clove of garlic, minced.
11. It's 1/2-1 teaspoon of oregano.

Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad instructions

1. Cook pasta until al dente. Be careful not overcook. Drain pasta and rinse with cold water until pasta is cool. Add drained pasta to a large bowl. Add in the bacon, broccoli, red onions, black olives, and tomatoes. essing in with the pasta mixture until well coated..
2. Toss to combine. (you may need to add a tiny bit of water to moisten the pasta if it's too sticky to toss) In a small bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, ranch dressing, garlic and oregano. When ready to serve, mix the dressing.
3. Serve immediately..
4. Notes- when I made this I was low on ingredients so I substitute it for lettuce, and my kids don’t black olives so I left it out. I just used ranch because I have no mayo....