Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, garden pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Garden pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Garden pasta salad is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Garden pasta salad:

1. Take 1 medium cucumber
2. Take 1 medium yellow summer squash
3. Make ready 1 medium zucchini
4. Make ready 1 medium sweet red pepper
5. Make ready 1 medium green pepper
6. Make ready 4 cup fresh broccoli florets
7. Get 3 cup fresh cauliflowerets
8. Make ready 1 small red onion finely copped
9. Make ready 2 packages Italian salad dressing mix
10. Make ready 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. Make ready 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
13. Prepare 3/4 tsp salt
14. Take 1/2 tsp pepper
15. Make ready 1 cup *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons
16. Get 3/4 cup **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms
17. Make ready 3/4 cup optionaldiced tomatoes
18. Make ready 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

So that is going to wrap this up for this exceptional food garden pasta salad recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am confident that you will make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!