Recipe: Yummy Pasta Salad (with Beans)

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Pasta Salad (with Beans). This recipe combines pasta with beans and fresh vegetables for a more substantial picnic salad. The dressing is a simple vinaigrette - no mayo - so the flavors stay fresh and bright. Pasta salads are always a terrific addition to your picnic or party.

Pasta Salad (with Beans) Fresh and easy pasta salad packed with crisp vegetables, fresh mozzarella, and tossed with a simple dressing. Pasta salad is easy to make. The ingredients are simple and flexible, so you can make this when you are inundated by summer produce or you can adapt to what's in season in the fall and winter. You can have Pasta Salad (with Beans) using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pasta Salad (with Beans)

  1. It's 1 box of Tri-colored noodles.
  2. Prepare 1 bottle of Italian dressing.
  3. You need 1 can of kidney beans.
  4. Prepare 3 of carrots.
  5. You need 3 of celery hearts.
  6. It's 4 of artichoke hearts.
  7. It's 1 of cucumber.
  8. You need 1 of green pepper.
  9. You need 1 of parmesan or whichever cheeses you like.

Easy Side Salad for the weekend. Toss your favorite pasta, corn, onions, tomatoes, peppers, black beans or other beans. This salad is flexible to taste. The dressing uses beans to make it creamy, instead of oil.

Pasta Salad (with Beans) step by step

  1. Boil noodles as directed.
  2. Heat up the kidney beans to a simmer.
  3. While noodles and kidney beans are cooking, skin the carrots, chop up all your vegetables..
  4. After everything is chopped up, put in bowl and set aside..
  5. Drain noodles and drain the beans..
  6. Add vegetables, noodles and beans together in a big serving bowl and stir together..
  7. Now add cheese and half of the salad dressing and stir well..
  8. Refrigerate for 30+ minutes depending on how cold you like pasta. Serve topped with whatever else you enjoy.
  9. DON'T LIMIT TO MY VEGETABLES! YOU CAN ADD WHATEVER ELSE YOU LIKE. I.e. Olives, ham, other cheeses, tomatoes. The more colorful, the healthier..

Taste and adjust as you go. The salad tastes best with crunchy red onions and a good. Pasta salad is truly as easy as boiling water if you stick to a simple formula, use a smart pasta cooling trick, and a flavorful dressing. Unlike potato salad, which loves to be dressed warm, pasta will soak up all the dressing and become dry and gummy if you toss it with the dressing while warm. Pasta Salad with Chickpeas, Green Beans, and Basil. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.