BLT Pasta Salad
Every summer when the garden comes in and we are flush with juicy, ripe tomatoes, I make BLT’s at least a few times a week for lunch or even dinner. I just can’t get enough of that classic bacon, lettuce, tomato combo! Especially with my favorite BLT addition of some ripe avocado. This BLT pasta salad is one of my favorite variations on the classic sandwich. I can’t decide if it’s a pasta salad with lettuce added to it for some freshness and crunch, or if it’s a traditional salad with pasta added to it for some sustenance. Either way, it works and it’s delicious. My whole family devoured this and asked for extra helpings. The girls also loved the bowtie pasta, which is one of their favorite pasta shapes, although you could use rotini or oriecchette instead, or probably others even. I love easy pasta salad recipes because they take hardly any time to throw together for any number of summer gatherings. I recommend bringing the components seperately, if you are taking this somewhere, and waiting to combine and dress this salad until shortly before serving. BLT pasta salad is much better freshly made than after it has been sitting for a while since the lettuce especially can go soggy sitting in the dressing. Backyard barbecues are all about the side dishes and summer salads like this one! Some of our other favorites are Classic Frog Eye Salad, Lemon Tarragon Pasta Salad, Creamy Pea Salad with Bacon, Taco Pasta Salad, and Deviled Egg Potato Salad!
Ingredients in BLT Pasta Salad
thick-cut bacon ripe tomatoes (if you have garden-ripe tomatoes, even better; otherwise roma or campari tomatoes are my favorites for this easy pasta salad, although halved cherry or grape tomatoes would work as well) chopped romaine lettuce avocado bowtie pasta homemade ranch dressing (okay, from a packet, but still) parsley red onion
Just look at all the yummy stuff that goes into this summer pasta salad!
Optional Mix-Ins for BLT Pasta Salad
I made the basic recipe to photograph for this post (well, mostly basic besides the addition of the avocado), but here are some other ingredients you might want to consider adding in to your pasta salad!
chopped hard boiled eggs pine nuts chopped cucumber shredded or crumbled cheese
How to Make BLT Pasta Salad
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Cottage Cheese Jello Salad Asian Slaw with Ginger Peanut Dressing Grilled Corn Salad Summer Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Poppy Seed Dressing Cornbread Charro Beans Bacon Green Onion Deviled Eggs Potato Salad or see all my 4th of July recipes for even more inspiration!
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