Pasta Salad (with Beans)
Pasta Salad (with Beans)

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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.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pasta salad (with beans) using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pasta Salad (with Beans):
  1. Make ready 1 box Tri-colored noodles
  2. Take 1 bottle Italian dressing
  3. Get 1 can kidney beans
  4. Make ready 3 carrots
  5. Get 3 celery hearts
  6. Take 4 artichoke hearts
  7. Take 1 cucumber
  8. Get 1 green pepper
  9. Get 1 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.

Instructions to make Pasta Salad (with Beans):
  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.

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