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.
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!