Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lauren's bacon ranch pasta salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lauren's Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Lauren's Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lauren's bacon ranch pasta salad using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lauren's Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Get 1 (12 oz) box small shell or rotini pasta
- Get 5 strips bacon
- Get 1 cup chopped cucumbers
- Make ready 1 cup chopped tomatoes
- Make ready 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- Make ready 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup ranch dressing or more to taste
- Take My Homemade Ranch Dressing
- Get 1/2 cup Mayo
- Make ready 1/2 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 1/4 cup sour cream
- Get 1/2 tsp dried parsley
- Take 1/2 tsp dried dill weed
- Take 1/2 tsp dried chives
- Get 1/2 tsp onion powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp worcestershire sauce
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 1/8 tsp black pepper
Steps to make Lauren's Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad:
- Cook bacon in skillet or oven at 400 degrees for 6-8 minutes or until crispy.
- Cook pasta according to package instructions. Remember to salt the pasta water so the noodles have some flavor. I use about 1 teaspoon salt. Drain the pasta and rinse under cold water so pasta can cool.
- In a mixing bowl combine the cooled pasta, cucumber, tomatoes, mozzarella cheese parmesan cheese and bacon. Stir. Add ranch and stir again to coat the noodles and veggies in the ranch.
- Serve right away or let it refrigerate for 1-2 hours before serving. Pasta salad tends to dry out in the fridge so don't leave it in there too long before serving. If needed, add some additional dressing or a dash of olive oil and give it a good stir to moisten it back up.
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