This creamy pasta salad with bacon has all the flavours of a BLT sandwich packed inside and is generously covered with your own homemade creamy pasta salad dressing.
Use this BLT pasta salad recipe and take it to any summer picnic and watch it disappear!
Prep Time:
1 hour
Cook Time:
10 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 10 minutes
This blt pasta salad with bacon incorporates all the flavours from the classic blt sandwich into a tasty creamy pasta salad.
The bacon transforms an ordinary macaroni salad into an irresistible delight at any barbecue or picnic.
Ingredients
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500 grams macaroni elbows
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8 bacon rashers
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3 large tomatoes diced
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8 lettuce leaves
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1 Tbsp lemon juice
Dressing:
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½ cup mayonnaise
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½ cup greek yoghurt
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¼ cup loosely packed fresh basil
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¼ cup loosely packed fresh parsley
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½ tsp garlic powder
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½ tsp onion powder
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1 tsp salt
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½ tsp cayenne pepper
Instructions
- Dice bacon and fry in butter in a Frying pan until crisp.
Remove bacon from pan and set aside to cool. Save drippings in pan. - Thinly slice and dice the tomato and lettuce.
- Cook pasta to Al dente and reserve ⅓ cup pasta cooking water. Place pasta in a large bowl and set aside to cool.
- Add chopped bacon, tomato, lettuce, and lemon juice to cooled pasta and toss to combine.
Prepare the dressing:
- Place all dressing ingredients in a food processor and pulse until smooth and creamy.
- Pour dressing over pasta salad and stir to coat.
- Stir in reserved ⅓ cup pasta water.
To Finish;
- Season salad with bacon drippings, salt and pepper.
- Refrigerate salad at least 1 hour until cold.
Notes
- You can store the blt pasta salad in refrigerator up to 3 days.
- Not suitable for freezing.
BLT Pasta Salad Serving Suggestions
- This is great served as a side-dish at your barbecue.
- Jazz up your plain hamburgers and add as a filling.
- Great as a sandwich or wrap filling.
- Serve with meat and vegies.
Nutrition Information
Yield
8
Serving Size
1
Amount Per ServingCalories 295Total Fat 15gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 11gCholesterol 18mgSodium 589mgCarbohydrates 29gFiber 3gSugar 4gProtein 10g
