Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, easy and simple homemade pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Easy and simple homemade pasta salad is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Easy and simple homemade pasta salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Fresh and easy pasta salad packed with crisp vegetables, fresh mozzarella, and tossed with a simple dressing. Made with simple ingredients, this salad is flexible, so you can make this when you are inundated by summer produce or adapt to what is in season. I love this simple pasta salad recipe - it's so easy to customize to whatever you've got in. Make a double batch of the Italian dressing so you can use it.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy and simple homemade pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy and simple homemade pasta salad:

1. Prepare mayonnaise (I used Kraft mayonnaise with olive oil)
2. Prepare to 1/2 cup Ranch dressing depending on your taste (I used Wishbone)
3. Prepare to 1 1/2 cups bow tie pasta
4. Get finely shredded carrot
5. Get salt
6. Prepare lemon pepper seasoning
7. Make ready Fresh lime juice
8. Prepare chicken breasts (I had small but if you use a large one 1 should be fine)
9. Prepare Bacon pieces
10. Make ready corn

It's full of fresh ingredients and delicious pasta This Easy Pasta Salad Recipe is my go to Summer dish. It's perfect for pot lucks and BBQ's and This is so simple and truly the best pasta salad recipe. We love serving this with grilled chicken. Learning how to make pasta salads is very simple, and only takes a couple minutes.

Instructions to make Easy and simple homemade pasta salad:

1. Bring a pot of water to boil. Add salt to water to taste. Once boiling add chicken breasts. Boil until cooked through.
2. When cooked thoroughly remove from water and let sit for 5-10 to cool. To the same water add the pasta, asking more water if needed. You do not need to add more salt because the water is already salted.
3. While pasta is cooking cut or shred chicken to desired size. Squeeze the fresh lime juice onto the chicken, making sure to combine it well, while it's still warm so that it may soak up the flavor.
4. After cutting the chicken, grate the carrot in a bowl and add the mayonnaise and ranch dressing letting it sit for a couple of minutes.
5. When pasta is just tender remove from the water, do not drain it. After removing from water, run it under cold water to stop the cooking process. Let it sit in the strainer and shake to run off excess water.
6. If you are using frozen corn, as I did, add it tonthe water that you cooked the chicken and pasta in. Cook until heated through usually about 3 min. If you are using can corn you can skip this step.
7. While the corn is heating up, add the drained pasta to the mayonnaise mixture along with the chicken and lemon pepper. When the corn is done, either run it under cold water as to cool it down, or add to the pasta mixture as is.
8. Mix all of the ingredients until combined well. Then lastly add in the bacon pieces and mix well. You can eat as in or place in the fridge to serve cold.

We love serving this with grilled chicken. Learning how to make pasta salads is very simple, and only takes a couple minutes. Once you have your oil, vinegar and seasonings, mix them together and pour your homemade dressing over your pasta salad. Here is how you achieve it. Easy and simple homemade pasta salad step by step.

So that is going to wrap this up for this exceptional food easy and simple homemade pasta salad recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I’m confident that you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!