Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, garden pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Garden pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Garden pasta salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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. Take cucumber
2. Take yellow summer squash
3. Make ready zucchini
4. Make ready sweet red pepper
5. Get green pepper
6. Prepare fresh broccoli florets
7. Take fresh cauliflowerets
8. Make ready red onion finely copped
9. Get Italian salad dressing mix
10. Get uncooked bow tow pasta or your choice of noodles…. I tried wheat noodles this time :-)
11. Make ready olive oil
12. Make ready red wine vinegar
13. Make ready salt
14. Take pepper
15. Prepare *optional**cranraisons, or cranberry or raisons
16. Get **optional ** sliced fresh mushrooms
17. Take optionaldiced tomatoes
18. Make ready **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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