Recipe of Award-winning Garden pasta salad

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, garden pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Garden pasta salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Garden pasta salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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:

1. Take 1 medium cucumber
2. Make ready 1 medium yellow summer squash
3. Prepare 1 medium zucchini
4. Prepare 1 medium sweet red pepper
5. Take 1 medium green pepper
6. Prepare 4 cup fresh broccoli florets
7. Get 3 cup fresh cauliflowerets
8. Get 1 small red onion finely copped
9. Get 2 packages Italian salad dressing mix
10. Take 4 1/2 cup uncooked bow tow pasta or your choice of noodles…. I tried wheat noodles this time :-)
11. Take 1/4 cup olive oil
12. Get 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
13. Make ready 3/4 tsp salt
14. Take 1/2 tsp pepper
15. Make ready 1 cup *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons
16. Take 3/4 cup **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms
17. Get 3/4 cup optionaldiced tomatoes
18. Prepare 1/2 cup **optional ** sliced or diced depending on taste and size celery

Steps to make Garden pasta salad:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. if desired , add the optional ingredients, toss again. serve and enjoy !
4. prep time : about 30 minutes, plus chilling time, plus pasta cooking time ( about 10~ 15 minutes )
5. makes about 24 1 cup servings

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