Garden-Fresh Pasta Salad
This Garden-Fresh Pasta Salad recipe uses fresh but common ingredients, and total ease in making it. Plus, I just cannot get enough cherry tomatoes right now!
Garden-Fresh Pasta Salad
Don’t forget to try this delicious Taco Salad or this amazing BLT Pasta Salad! My current favourite is Dill Pickle Pasta Salad.
For a salad that is a meal, try this amazing Oriental Chicken Salad – a current favourite with myself and my kids!
Most of the pasta salads I make are mayo-based. Which is great, but sometimes it’s good for the soul {and tummy} to break free from the usual and try a new recipe.
This, my friends, is how you find true gems that are welcomed into your recipe box, to be made regularly.
This is the case with Garden-Fresh Pasta Salad, a recipe I found on the Kraft Canada website. What drew me to this recipe was the fresh {but common} ingredients, and the ease of making it. Plus, I just cannot get enough cherry tomatoes right now!
Result? Love!
I admire a salad recipe that can be made ahead and one which tastes even better the next day. It’s hard to come by for salads!
This summer recipe fits well with busy days, when you might only have prep time in the early morning. When you have this Garden-Fresh Pasta Salad recipe ready and waiting for you, you might now hit that drive-thru either. It also goes without saying that it’s a perfect one to compliment that BBQ meal!
My husband literally said after the first bite, ‘wow, very fresh!‘. I laughed and told him that actually, ‘fresh’ is in the name of the recipe, very ironic.
Admitingly, he was very skeptical of this at first.. Yet after finishing his serving and while reaching for seconds he said he wouldn’t mind if I made this one again. Summer-salad score!
Thing is, summer is a great time to utilize the freshest food you can find, and there’s nothing like a cool and tasty pasta salad on a hot day.
Garden-Fresh Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 8 cups whole wheat farfalle (bow-tie pasta, uncooked)
- 2 cups broccoli florets
- 1 red onion (chopped)
- 1 red pepper (chopped)
- 2 cups halved cherry tomatoes
- 1 bottle Calorie-Wise Sun-Dried Tomato & Oregano Dressing (250 mL)
- 1/2 cup Parmesan Light Grated Cheese
Instructions
- Cook pasta in large saucepan as directed on package, omitting salt and adding broccoli to the boiling water the last 3 min.
- Drain; rinse with cold water. Place in large bowl. Add all remaining ingredients except cheese; mix lightly.
- Refrigerate 1 hour. Stir gently before serving; top with cheese.
Notes
Substitute 1-inch asparagus pieces for the broccoli florets.
I’m Pasta lover this post is perfect to me. hello Tammi. I think Garden-Fresh Pasta Salad is a great recipe for weight loss.
I used to make a 7 layer salad but it demanded a lot of mayonnaise. I love pasta and tomatoes so this Garden-fresh -pasta salad may be my next favorite one. I can’t wait to try it. Thank you so much for this recipe.
This salad looks so deliciously refreshing.Eeryone loves the fresh veggies in it and the awesome dressing.I make this one for the family a lot.Thanks.
This salad looks so good. I love salads and can’t wait until our garden is planted and producing tomato’s, green peppers etc. Nothing better than fresh vegtables. This is one recipe I will be making. Will be pinning this for later. Yummy!
I love pasta salads, I use Radiatori in my pasta salads as I think it stays in shape better. I usually use a mayo based dressing.
This looks so good, we have tired about 10 recipes of yours not including deserts and we loved every one! Thanks for sharing all these 🙂
Thanks for the recipe. This looks delicious and I need a new pasta salad.
I love all this idea for a quick and healthy summer time dinner!
I have never tried that salad dressing but it sounds delicious as does your salad!
Looks so yummy. Will have to try it
This sounds like a great summer recipe! Will have to try this for our next BBQ
Mmmm, this looks so yummy and light for summer. I want to make this!!
I am always looking for new pasta recipes. This looks so refreshing and tasty. Thanks
Wow, looks so great! I do love finding recipes that feel lighter when you are eating them but still satisfying.
This looks likes an absolutely yummy summer salad. Thank you for sharing, I’m always looking for something different to have when we BBQ and I love that it’s made with fresh veggies I usually have on hand.
YUM! That looks so good! Kraft is one of my favorite brands!
Pinned it because I am soo gonna make this for the next barbecue!
I love fresh pasta salads. I would add feta cheese, instead of parm. Tomatoes are my fave !
Mmmm, sounds delicious! I love the light dressing – perfect for summer!
This looks so delish! I love to make pasta salads in the Summer!
I love pasta salads. Do if find they taste better when someone else makes them ? 😉
I love pasta salad. That looks absolutely delicious!
This looks perfect for summer! I love a pasta salad at a bbq!
Looks yummy!
What a great side to take to a pot luck!! Looks so fresh and colorful too!!!!
Love the fresh ingredients! Such a simple summer salad!
My daughter was just asking me for good pasta salad recipes! I’ll have to share this with her.
What an way to eat veggies! It is very appealing with the pretty colors too!
looks delicious
This looks summer fresh and delicious! I had to pin this, Tammy. YUMMY!
I haven’t seen that variety of dressing at the store — I’m going to look for it because we eat salad all the time. In fact, I picked a big bowl of red and yellow grape tomatoes today and need to find something to do with them.
I am such a pasta junkie and with my garden in full swing. This is right up my alley. Looks delicious. Thanks for the recipe.
So jealous of your garden!!
This looks so amazing and refreshing. I would love to have bowl of this out on the dec while relaxing and reading a book.
Ahhh, you paint a lovely picture!!
Yummy! Looks like the perfect side for a BBQ! I love any kind of pasta salads!
These are gorgeous photos and a great recipe! I can’t wait to try it!
Thanks Shelley, let me know what you think when you do!
This is a beautiful pasta salad. I love all the veggies and when it looks pretty like this, my kids would want to eat it.
You had me drooling with that first picture. That looks amazing!
Hahaha, thanks Kathy!!
This looks really nice. I usually do not like Pasta Salad, but this one I thinl I might try.
You just might, give it a try! 🙂
Yumm this looks so good! My daughter and I are hooked on cherry tomatoes right now too lol They are so full of flavour! Thanks for the recipe!
You are very welcome Anne, enjoy your tomatoes!! 🙂
Would love to have that setting on my kitchen table right now! LOL! Yum!
Oh my goodness, you know last weekend we went to a BBQ and I couldn’t eat any of the yummy pasta dishes because of my diet, I love that you used whole wheat pasta and that lower-calorie dressing. Now next time I go anywhere or have a BBQ here, I can make this! A dish EVERYONE can enjoy. HA
Ya, a real winner for you – so happy to have helped.
WOW, my mouth is absolutely drooling! That salad is amazing! I want it with my dinner tonight!
looks so good- thanks for sharing!
You are very welcome, Trish!
this looks absolutely delicious! i am definitely going to give this a go. I always have a craving for different pasta salads and have never tried this one before
This looks amazing Tammi. I would enjoy eating it very much..haha
Sounds so good! I love summer salads- they’re great for dinner and as leftovers for lunch!
So true, we had this for days!! YUM!
I can tell it’s lunchtime, I’m starving. This pasta salad looks so fresh and delicious. Perfect for summer cookouts.
This sounds delicious. I love that it isn’t mayo based!
This is a PERFECT summer side salad! I wish I had a garden growing, but we put it off this year, totally bummed.
I think that each and every year, I really need to start one sometime!!
I love it! I am totally borrowing this for the cookout I was invited to this weekend!!
Fantastic, enjoy!! 🙂
I love the recie! I have used that same dressing for roasted vegetables as well- so versatile!
It really is, I’ve used it in a lot of recipes lately!
looks very tasty
Thanks!