CHEDDAR RANCH PASTA SALAD
This Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is one you will make over and over. It’s absolutely delicious and the perfect addition to any gathering! So many wonderful additions to this salad.
If you love this salad you will also love our Amish Pasta Salad, it’s our most popular pasta salad recipe!
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
This Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad is great for a cookout or gathering. We love pasta salad and this one will not disappoint! My husband loves peas so anytime I can use them in a dish, he’s happy. The peas, cheddar cheese, and ranch add such a wonderful flavor to this salad. You can make this dish the night before and enjoy it for a few days. You could double the recipe or even cut it in half. It keeps well refrigerated. Make this for any holiday or event and you probably won’t bring any home.
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Elbow Macaroni
- Red Onion
- Frozen Peas
- Hardboiled Eggs
- Bacon, cooked
- Shredded Cheddar Cheese
- Mayonnaise
- Greek Yogurt
- Hidden Valley Original Ranch Salad Dressing Seasoning Mix
- Dillweed
SWAPS
You can use white onion, switch out the cheese for another kind, use turkey bacon, replace the yogurt with sour cream.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
This recipe is super easy, the most time consuming part is getting the ingredients ready, like making the pasta, cooking the bacon and boiling the eggs.
Step 1
Cook pasta according to directions on the box, rinse in cold water. Then add all ingredients and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
⭐TIP
This salad can definitely be made in advance. It’s wonderful the next day, and if it is dry just add a little more mayonnaise.
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STORING & SERVING SIZE
We store this in the refrigerator and makes about 8 servings.
Cheddar Ranch Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 2 cups of elbow macaroni uncooked
- 1/4 cup of diced red onion
- 1 1/2 cups of frozen peas thawed
- 3 hardboiled eggs peeled and chopped
- 4 pieces of cooked bacon chopped
- 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup of mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt
- 1 packet of Hidden Valley Original Ranch Salad Dressing Seasoning Mix
- 1/2 teaspoon of dill weed
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to directions on the box, rinse in cold water. Then add all ingredients and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
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This is so DELICIOUS! (I’m eating it right now.) It is the perfect blend of flavors.
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Looks good! Before I make this, do you use dried dill weed OR fresh dill weed? Please advise.
Thank you
You can use whichever you prefer.