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Italian Pasta Salad

Everyone always loves this cold Italian Pasta Salad recipe made with a simple homemade Italian dressing, rotini noodles, tomatoes, olives, mozzarella, pepperoni or hard salami, onion, and pepperoncini. It's the perfect pasta salad recipe to serve as a side for a BBQ or potluck. Italian Pasta Salad This simple and classic pasta salad is the perfect side to just about any meal, vegetarian side (leave out the salami) or even as a main dish. I love a good cold pasta salad as a side with anything View the Recipe

Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad

This Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad is loaded with all of the traditional toppings for a caesar salad, including croutons, parmesan cheese, lettuce and tomatoes, with added pasta and chicken, all smothered in a creamy caesar dressing. Serve this cold pasta salad as a side for your next bbq or as an easy weeknight dinner. There is something completely refreshing about this caesar pasta salad. I love the crunch from the romaine and croutons and the flavors of the creamy pasta, grilled chicken and View the Recipe

Tuna Pasta Salad

This Tuna Pasta Salad with shell noodles, peas, tuna, celery, and Greek yogurt is fast, healthy, and a dish your whole family can enjoy! Tuna Pasta Salad I don't know about you, but for me, warm weather screams pasta salad! This tuna pasta salad is a classic! It easy, fast, and I usually have all the ingredients that I need to throw it together. My kids love this pasta salad and we eat it for lunch all the time, but it works great as a dinner or side dish. I also love feeding my kids View the Recipe

25+ Pasta Salad Recipes

A round-up of more than 25 pasta salad recipes! This list has something for everyone! I love pasta salad because it seems like a perfect compilation of healthy and hearty! These pasta salads are filling in enough to serve as a main dish and they are yummy enough to bring as a side to a party. And best of all, they are so simple to make! I hope you find a few family favorites from this list of pasta salad recipes! Spinach, Chicken, Bowtie Pasta Salad with Teriyaki Vinaigrette from View the Recipe

Spinach Avocado Pasta Salad

This Spinach Avocado Pasta Salad is not only DELICIOUS, it's packed with vegetables and protein for a healthy meal or side dish. I love meals that taste great and leave my feeling full, for longer. What's not to love about this hearty, healthy Spinach Avocado Pasta Salad? Spinach: yes please! Cilantro: YUM. Chickpeas: Love them. Tomatoes and avocados: make everything better. This salad just works. It's a beautiful blend of flavor and color and it's completely View the Recipe

Healthy Chicken Pasta Salad

Healthy Chicken Pasta Salad loaded with spinach, mandarin oranges, craisins, almonds and parmesan cheese, tossed together with a light and healthy creamy citrus dressing. I'm trying to be better at making meal plans for the week, but it's hard during the summer months when our schedule is so much more relaxed. We play hard, and I often forget to make a dinner plan. We've been going to the pool a LOT. My two littles are becoming awesome little swimmers, thanks to our favorite puddle View the Recipe

Pizza Pasta Salad

Pizza Pasta Salad loaded with pepperoni, olives, mozzarella and parmesan cheese, tomatoes, bell peppers and pepperocini. Our summer BBQ's are in full force. We've been using the grill almost every night to make dinner, which means I'm always in need of new side dishes to serve with dinner. Pasta salads are always an easy sell for my kids and my husband. What's not to love about a PIZZA version?! Is it just me, or do fun noodle shapes make a pasta dish more exciting? Like, when I make View the Recipe

Creamy Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad

Creamy Pesto Tortellini Pasta Salad is completely delicious and comes together in just a few minutes. The creamy caesar pesto dressing shines paired with tender tortellini pasta. This is a family-favorite, served as a side dish or a main course. When the warm weather comes around I turn into a pasta salad junkie. I've shared tons of pasta salad recipes, (this Spinach Avocado Pasta Salad and this Teriyaki Bowtie Pasta Salad being two top favorites!) and lately I've been really into View the Recipe

Southwest Tortellini Pasta Salad

A fresh and easy southwest tortellini pasta salad that can be made in less than 30 minutes! It's loaded with veggies and protein and coated in a deliciously simple and healthy southwest dressing. If I had it my way, I'm pretty sure I could live off of pasta salad. I think I've mentioned that before. I have a ton of various pasta salad recipes on my site because they make a great main dish OR side dish! You can usually customize them with ingredients you already have in your pantry View the Recipe

Pesto Pasta Salad

Pesto Pasta Salad with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella and pesto. An easy summer side dish with only 5 ingredients! Happy Memorial Day! Hopefully you're spending the day with family, remembering loved ones who've passed on and enjoying beautiful weather and BBQ's! Side dishes like this Pesto Pasta Salad become staples throughout the summer months, don't they? When we're grilling burgers and hot dogs I'm always a fan of having something light and fresh to accompany them. Some of my other View the Recipe

Creamy Summer Pasta Salad

Creamy Summer Pasta Salad with Greek yogurt, broccoli, olives, carrots, peas, and bell peppers. A great BBQ side dish or have it as your main course! Can we all agree that a summer BBQ is really not complete without a pasta salad side dish? I have tons of favorites, like this chicken caesar pasta salad and this teriyaki spinach chicken bowtie pasta salad...but this Creamy Summer Pasta Salad ranks high among them! It's really similar to classic ranch pasta salads you may have tried in the View the Recipe

BBQ Chicken Pasta Salad

BBQ Chicken Pasta Salad with penne pasta, black beans, corn, tomatoes, and cheese over a bed of green lettuce. Mmm good! Since it's Monday and all I wanted to share another yummy 30-minute meal to get you through the busy week! If I don't have a few easy meal ideas on hand the first days of the week I go crazy! My husband doesn't get home until around 10pm each night, which means my days with the kids can be loooonnnggg. The last thing I have energy for at the end of the days is making View the Recipe

Arugula Pasta Salad

Arugula Pasta Salad with penne pasta, grape tomatoes, parmesan cheese and a simple oil based dressing. Healthy and delicious! Umm, is it spring-time yet?! We've had some amazing warmer weather here in St. Louis the past few days and it's been absolutely dreamy! I really don't like winter if I can't ski--and where I'm living right now there is hardly any snow and no mountains! I was talking with some friends recently about how much I miss Utah winters because of the skiing--I grew up View the Recipe

Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad

This first time I ever tried orzo pasta was in this Mediterranean pasta salad dish. I specifically remember the first time my Mom it, and I was in heaven. It was during the summer and my sister and I had just got home from a soccer game and we were starving. We stood at the kitchen counter and devoured the whole dish as we stood there. My mom came in and was mad we had eaten most of it, so we ended up making it again, but tripling the recipe! We kept the leftovers in the refrigerator that View the Recipe

Tomato, Basil, Avocado Pasta Salad

Tomato, Basil, Avocado Pasta Salad with bowtie pasta, fresh avocado, cherry tomatoes, bacon, fresh basil, and parmesan cheese. Every day around lunchtime I always seem to be scrambling to make Jackson (my one-year-old) and I something easy and healthy. We're both usually really hungry by the time I get around to preparing lunch, so I basically have to use whatever I can chop up that's in the fridge that day. That's how this pasta salad was born. I try to mix up the foods we eat each meal View the Recipe

Spinach, Cilantro, Avocado Pasta Salad

Spinach, cilantro, avocado pasta salad is the perfect way to sneak some healthy greens into a yummy dinner that everyone will eat! This salad is so healthy and the perfect way to get your family to eat their "greens" in a delicious way! You get your protein from the beans, healthy fats from the avocados, and there is plenty of veggies. Then top it off with a light lemon dressing and you have the perfect blend of yummy flavors! I like to make a big batch for my fridge so I can snack on View the Recipe

Spinach, Chicken, Bowtie Pasta Salad with Teriyaki Vinaigrette

Serve this spinach chicken bowtie pasta salad as a main dish or a delicious side! Years ago my Aunt Diane brought this salad to a family party and we all fell in love with it! It has since become a huge family favorite. We often enjoy it as our main course on a weeknight, but it's also great as an appetizer or side dish. The guys in our family aren't always crazy about what may look like a "girly" salad, (a salad with fruit and nuts in it) but they all LOVE this one! It's yummy View the Recipe

Instant Pot Cajun Pasta

Instant Pot Cajun Pasta is made with andouille or kielbasa sausage, vegetables, and pasta. It's another all-in-one instant pot pasta recipe that my family loves! Interested in more all-in-one Instant Pot Recipes? Some of my family's favorites include Instant Pot Chicken and Rice, Instant Pot Pasta with Meatballs, and Instant Pot Stroganoff. Instant Pot Cajun Pasta I get so excited every time I successfully create an instant pot recipe that's a "dump it and forget it" type of dinner! View the Recipe

Instant Pot Potato Salad

The BEST Instant Pot Potato Salad is made with gold potatoes cooked together with whole eggs on top. No steamer basket or special equipment is needed. I'm all about Instant Pot recipes that actually save me time! I'm always working to develop all-in-one instant pot meals that allow me to dump everything in the pot for an easy dinner, like this popular Instant Pot Chicken and Rice and IP Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya. Instant Pot Potato Salad I will never make potato salad any other way View the Recipe

Honey Mustard Chicken Salad

Honey Mustard Chicken Salad is crispy baked cornflake chicken served on a bed of greens and topped with a simple honey mustard dressing. I love salad recipes that also function as a main dish, and this honey mustard chicken salad recipe is one of my favorites! If you are in the mood for other main dish salad recipes, check out my Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad or Healthy Chicken Pasta Salad. Honey Mustard Chicken Salad I LOVE honey mustard sauce on basically anything, and this chicken salad View the Recipe

Traditional Potato Salad

Traditional Potato Salad made with Yukon Gold potatoes, hard boiled eggs, and a simple creamy dressing. This easy recipe has been a family favorite for years. Potato salad is a staple recipe that's always a crowd pleaser. It's one of my favorite side dishes to bring to a summer party. I also love to bring Southwest Quinoa Salad, Cowboy Salsa, and Chicken Caesar Pasta Salad. Potato Salad When it comes to potato salad, I don't like anything fancy--just give me the easy, old-school View the Recipe