BLT Pasta Salad
BLT Pasta Salad is flavorful and delicious! If you like bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, you have to try this pasta salad!
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Ingredients Needed For BLT Pasta Salad:
Bowtie pasta, uncooked
Romaine Lettuce
Spinach
Bacon, cooked and broken up
Red onion, chopped or sliced
Tomato, chopped
Buttermilk
Best Foods Mayonnaise
Hidden Valley Ranch Buttermilk Salad Dressing Mix (dry powder)
Sweet Baby Ray’s Barbecue Sauce
Pepper
Cook’s Note:
I love using Kirkland’s Bacon Crumbles BUT, this is not the recipe for those crumbles. Cook your bacon and break it up-you will love the taste and the crunch of the fresh cooked bacon in this salad.
If you would like more bacon-add it. More tomato-add it. If you would like to use more spinach-change up the lettuce to spinach ratios. You need 7 cups of romaine/spinach combination.
Instructions For BLT Pasta Salad:
Cook three cups of bowtie pasta in salted water according to package directions. Drain, rinse with cold water and set strainer full of pasta aside on a towel to let all the excess water drip off.
While pasta cooks, cook the bacon, drain off grease-use a paper towel to remove excess bacon grease from the bacon strips. Break up bacon into bite-size pieces.
Make the dressing: combine buttermilk, mayonnaise, Hidden Valley Homestyle Ranch Salad Dressing Mix (dry powder), Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce, and pepper. Mix to combine until smooth and creamy. Refrigerate until ready to serve this yummy salad.
Combine the cooled and drained pasta, torn romaine lettuce, baby spinach leaves, cooked and crumbled bacon, diced onion and diced tomato in a large bow. Toss. Refrigerate to chill and until ready to serve.
When ready to serve. Mix the salad ingredients with the dressing and toss to coat.
Serve and enjoy immediately!!
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BLT Pasta Salad
A delicious pasta salad with the great flavors of a BLT sandwich.
Ingredients
- 3 cups bowtie pasta uncooked
- 5 cups romaine lettuce chopped
- 2 cups baby spinach leaves
- 12 ounce package bacon
- 1/2 cup tomato diced
- 1/4 cup red onion diced
Dressing Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup Best Foods Mayonnaise
- 3/4 tbsp Hidden Valley Homestyle Ranch Salad Dressing Mix
- 3 tbsps Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce
- 1/4 tsp pepper
Instructions
Dressing Instructions:
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Combine five dressing ingredients together until smooth and creamy. Refrigerate.
Salad Instructions:
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Cook the 3 cups of pasta. Drain, rinse in cold water and then allow time to cool and drain excess water.
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While the pasta cooks and cools, cook the bacon and prepare the other ingredients for the salad.
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Cook the bacon, use a paper towel to remove excess bacon grease and break the bacon strips into bite-size pieces.
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Chop the romaine, onion and tomatoes.
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Add cooked pasta, romaine lettuce, spinach, bacon pieces, onion and tomato to a large bowl. Toss to combine. Refrigerate for at least an hour to chill and until ready to serve.
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When ready to serve, combine salad with dressing and toss to coat. Serve immediately.
*Adapted from Life in the Lofthouse.
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Made this tonight and everyone loved it! I used spring mix instead of only spinach and it was still delicious. Thanks for another great recipe!
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