This creamy pasta salad with dressing has all the flavours of a BLT sandwich packed inside, and is generously covered with your own homemade creamy pasta salad dressing.
Take this blt pasta salad with bacon which is an irresistible delight to any barbecue or summer picnic and watch it disappear!
You’ve got crispy bacon, lettuce, tomato, and macaroni elbows tossed in a creamy homemade dressing to create a flavour combo that you will not be able to get enough of.
This easy pasta salad with dressing recipe is great for any cookout or even as a lunch or light summer meal! Using homemade dressing makes this recipe next level!
This blt pasta salad with bacon incorporates all the flavours from the classic blt sandwich into a tasty creamy pasta salad. A BLT Pasta Salad with dressing recipe that turns a classically perfect flavour combo into a fun summer dish that everyone will rave about!
Ingredients
500 grams macaroni elbows
8 bacon rashers
3 large tomatoes diced
8 lettuce leaves
1 Tbsp lemon juice
Dressing:
½ cup mayonnaise
½ cup greek yoghurt
¼ cup loosely packed fresh basil
¼ cup loosely packed fresh parsley
½ tsp garlic powder
½ tsp onion powder
1 tsp salt
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.
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