A pasta salad loaded with bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, pasta and dressed up ranch dressing! Perfect for warm weather! Take it to your next BBQ, pool party, picnic, family gathering, potluck, or make it for dinner!
Cook the pasta according to the instructions. Cool completely. Set aside.
Mix up the Ranch Dressing ingredients. Place the dressing in the fridge to thicken and to chill.
Chop/dice the red onion.
Remove the seeds and squishy center from the tomatoes. Dice/chop into small pieces. *See blog post above for tips on how to do this!
Cook the bacon and crumble it.
Chop or tear your romaine lettuce, making sure there are no large pieces.
In a large bowl add all of the ingredients together, except the ranch dressing. Mix it all up.
Add the ranch dressing just before you are ready to serve the salad and mix it well. The dressing will soak into the pasta as it sits. See notes!
Serve the salad and enjoy!
Notes
See blog post above for more information on the tomatoes and how to remove the seeds and juicy center before dicing/chopping. You can use bagged romaine lettuce. You will need about 2 bags (10-12 oz. each). You can add less lettuce if you don't want a lot in the salad.See blog post above for types of pasta, tomatoes and lettuce you can use!Bottled ranch dressing can be used in place of the ranch dressing in this recipe. You will need about 2 cups bottled ranch dressing.The ranch dressing will soak up as it sits! Make sure you add the dressing only when you are ready to eat it! If you have leftovers, make some more ranch dressing and mix it all up again. (Or squirt some bottled ranch dressing on the salad)
Nutrition information is automatically calculated and should only be used as an approximation.