Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, garden pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Garden pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Garden pasta salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have garden pasta salad using 18 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Garden pasta salad:

1. Get 1 medium cucumber
2. Take 1 medium yellow summer squash
3. Take 1 medium zucchini
4. Prepare 1 medium sweet red pepper
5. Take 1 medium green pepper
6. Take 4 cup fresh broccoli florets
7. Get 3 cup fresh cauliflowerets
8. Make ready 1 small red onion finely copped
9. Take 2 packages Italian salad dressing mix
10. Get 4 1/2 cup uncooked bow tow pasta or your choice of noodles…. I tried wheat noodles this time :-)
11. Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil
12. Take 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
13. Prepare 3/4 tsp salt
14. Prepare 1/2 tsp pepper
15. Take 1 cup *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons
16. Make ready 3/4 cup **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms
17. Take 3/4 cup optionaldiced tomatoes
18. Get 1/2 cup **optional ** sliced or diced depending on taste and size celery

Instructions to make Garden pasta salad:

1. wash the first 5 ingredients, but do not dry: chop and transfer to a large Bowl. add the remaining vegetables ( not tomatoes or mushrooms yet, they should be added just before serving). sprinkle with dry dressing mix; toss to coat. refrigerate , covered , 4~6 he's or overnight.
2. cook pasta according to package. drain. rinse with cold water. add to the vegetable mixture. in a small bowl , whisk together the remaining ingredients. add to the salad : toss to cost.
3. if desired , add the optional ingredients, toss again. serve and enjoy !
4. prep time : about 30 minutes, plus chilling time, plus pasta cooking time ( about 10~ 15 minutes )
5. makes about 24 1 cup servings

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