BLT Pasta Salad
All the flavors of a classic BLT in pasta salad? Sign me up! This easy meal is made with beef bacon, bow-tie pasta, fresh tomatoes, and spinach leaves, tossed in a homemade ranch dressing.
Servings: 6
Calories:
Ingredients
- 6 slices beef bacon
- 12 ounces bow-tie pasta
- 6 ounces multicolor grape tomatoes
- 1.5 ounces fresh spinach leaves stems removed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- ½ cup Coined Cuisine homemade ranch linked below
Instructions
- Add your beef bacon slices to a foil-lined pan.
- Place the pan in a cold oven, then set the temperature to 390℉. Cook for 8-10 minutes, until crispy.
- Remove and place the bacon on paper towels to drain excess grease. Crumble bacon slices into pieces.
- In the meantime, fill a large pot with water and a generous amount of salt.
- Bring the pot to a rolling boil, then cook your bowtie pasta for 7 minutes.
- Reserve ¼ cup of pasta water, then drain the pasta and set aside to cool.
- Rinse and slice your grape tomatoes into fourths.
- Thinly slice your fresh spinach leaves.
- In a large salad bowl, add the pasta, crumbled bacon, sliced tomatoes, and spinach.
- Spinach with the salt, black pepper, and oregano.
- Mix your homemade ranch with the pasta water, a little at a time, until smooth, to thin it out. You may not use all of the water.
- Add the ranch dressing to your pasta salad and stir everything until combined.
- Serve as is, or let the pasta salad marinate in the fridge for 30 minutes. Enjoy!