Pasta Salad (with Beans)
Pasta Salad (with Beans)

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This recipe combines pasta with beans and fresh vegetables for a more substantial picnic salad. The dressing is a simple vinaigrette - no mayo - so the flavors stay fresh and bright. Pasta salads are always a terrific addition to your picnic or party.

Pasta Salad (with Beans) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Pasta Salad (with Beans) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pasta salad (with beans) using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pasta Salad (with Beans):
  1. Get 1 box Tri-colored noodles
  2. Prepare 1 bottle Italian dressing
  3. Prepare 1 can kidney beans
  4. Get 3 carrots
  5. Make ready 3 celery hearts
  6. Take 4 artichoke hearts
  7. Take 1 cucumber
  8. Get 1 green pepper
  9. Prepare 1 parmesan or whichever cheeses you like

The ingredients are simple and flexible, so you can make this when you are inundated by summer produce or you can adapt to what's in season in the fall and winter. Pasta salad is truly as easy as boiling water if you stick to a simple formula, use a smart pasta cooling trick, and a flavorful dressing. Unlike potato salad, which loves to be dressed warm, pasta will soak up all the dressing and become dry and gummy if you toss it with the dressing while warm. Canned beans help transform pasta salads into easy lunch recipes.

Instructions to make Pasta Salad (with Beans):
  1. Boil noodles as directed
  2. Heat up the kidney beans to a simmer
  3. While noodles and kidney beans are cooking, skin the carrots, chop up all your vegetables.
  4. After everything is chopped up, put in bowl and set aside.
  5. Drain noodles and drain the beans.
  6. Add vegetables, noodles and beans together in a big serving bowl and stir together.
  7. Now add cheese and half of the salad dressing and stir well.
  8. Refrigerate for 30+ minutes depending on how cold you like pasta. Serve topped with whatever else you enjoy
  9. DON'T LIMIT TO MY VEGETABLES! YOU CAN ADD WHATEVER ELSE YOU LIKE. I.e. Olives, ham, other cheeses, tomatoes. The more colorful, the healthier.

If you plan to transport the salad to work for a quick lunch, keep the spinach separate and stir it in just before serving. Toss cooked pasta and pasta water with spinach salad mixture. Serve warm or at room temperature. Pour over the pasta and beans and add the parsley, mint and oregano. Season with salt and pepper and serve.

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