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Yesterday I shared with you some amazing Main Dish Salads – hope you didn’t miss them! Â Be sure and check them out. Â Today’s salad recipe was given to me by a friend that is a vegetarian. Â This friend has since moved away and we’ve lost contact but I always loved attending potluck parties with her because she always brought such delicious things. Â Caesar Pasta Salad is one of those things. Â Don’t you just love a good potluck! Â I think some of my favorite recipes have come from friend’s who brought them to a potluck dinner party!
If you wanted to use this as a main dish salad and you aren’t a vegetarian you could easily add some grilled chicken or salmon to this salad to make it a bit more substantial for you but I assure you it is delicious just the way it is. I love the addition of pasta into a green salad.  One of my favorite salads of all times is this Spinach and Chicken Pasta Salad that I have served over and over again.  It is always a huge hit! Today’s Caesar Pasta Salad is a combination of greens (I used romaine, spinach and some butter lettuce) pasta, walnuts, cucumbers and Parmesan cheese.
Pasta Salad Recipe
The pasta is marinaded in a mixture of red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, garlic and olive oil. Â That mixture is then used at the dressing on the salad too. Â The pasta can marinade for a few hours or overnight. Then everything is added together, tossed with the remaining dressing and topped off with cucumbers, toasted walnuts and Parmesan cheese. Â Yum!
For other yummy salads try these:
BLT Salad – Broccoli Pasta Salad – Southwest Cornbread Salad
Caesar Pasta Salad Recipe
Caesar Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 1/3 C red wine vinegar
- 2 tsp honey dijon mustard
- 1 tsp garlic minced
- pinch of sugar
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 C olive oil
- 1/2 lb. Farfaille Pasta
- 1 C Parmesan cheese grated
- 1 C chopped walnuts toasted
- 8 C mixed salad greens romaine, spinach, butter etc.
- 1 1/2 C peeled quartered cucumbers
Instructions
Dressing
- In a food processor combine vinegar, mustard, garlic, sugar, salt and pepper, olive oil and pulse until mixed.
- Cook pasta until al dente and drain well.
- Toss half of dressing mixture with pasta and place in a closed lid container and refrigerate until ready to use (2 hours or overnight)
- Combine all the ingredients and dress with the remaining salad dressing.
- Add additional salt and pepper to taste
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Mallory @ Chocolate with Grace says
I love caeser salads! This looks so yummy as a pasta salad!
Leigh Anne says
Thanks Mallory – it is a fun way to enjoy a caesar salad!
Rena says
A new twist on Caesar Salad, Pasta! Why Not!
Thanks for sharing something New!
Liz says
Thank you Leigh Anne. So many lovely salad recipes.