Community Pick
BLT Pasta Salad
"This has been in my recipe box forever so I'm not sure where it came from. This is light so a good pick for those hot days when you just don't feel like eating much."
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- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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16
ingredients
- 1 cup mayonnaise or 1 cup salad dressing
- 1⁄4 cup lemon juice concentrate
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons chicken flavor instant bouillon
- 1 (7 ounce) package rotini pasta or (7 ounce) package other pastas, cooked and drained
- 8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1 large tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- 1⁄4 cup green onion, sliced
- 4 cups lettuce, thinly sliced
directions
- Combine mayonnaise, lemon juice, sugar and bouillon for the dressing.
- Combine rotini, bacon, tomato, and green onion.
- I recommend waiting until you are ready to serve before mixing in the lettuce.
Questions & Replies
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This looks like a recipe from Wylers Chicken Bouillon except it's missing 1/3 cup of chili sauce.. -
Can I use canned cherry tomatoes instead? -
Can this recipe be made the day before, if I do not add the lettuce?
Reviews
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A neat combo of flavors. Having made this a couple of times, first per the recipe, here are the things I would change: Add 1/2 the dressing, let the pasta salad chill, at serving time add lettuce, remainder of dressing and toss. Use 12 Oz. pasta, not 7. Use 1 more slice of bacon. Add 1 more tomato. Substitute chopped red onion for green onion and increase the amount. -
This is my husbands favorite summer salad. The only adaption that I made was substituting thinly sliced celery for the lettuce. I don't have to worry about the lettuce wilting and it holds up better in the fridge.
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This is a fabulous salad! I took it to a pool party, and there wasn't a sniff left. I was afraid the lettuce would wilt when mixed in, so I just layered it on top. I was also a little put off by the amount of Realemon, but I made it exactly as written, and it was wonderful! I'll be making this again on a regular basis. Great take-along dish.
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Yummy! Made this tonight for supper. Used a little more bacon than it called for (just shy of 1 lb.) and crushed 3 chicken boullion cubes (I didn't have any granulated boullion). Other than that, followed the recipe exactly. Great flavor. Next time I'll only use 2 boullion cubes; made it a little too salty. Oh, this is great w/fresh ground pepper on it!
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This was an amazing salad! I made it exactly as the recipe said, except I used real lemon juice and abt a TBL of lemon zest. This actually made wayyy too much salad for just my husband and me, so on day TWO I minced a couple cloves of garlic, chopped a stalk of celery sauted them in a bit of butter and added it to the pasta. Then, on day THREE I deboned some grilled [leftover] chicken and tossed it into the salad with a handful of fresh lettuce and tomatoes. The salad is so good and easy to manipulate for what you have on hand. The lemon is sooo refreshing! Thanks for sharing your recipe, LAURA36 !
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Tweaks
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I mix everything except the lettuce and refrigerate. Then I slice the lettuce thin (usually an entire head of romaine) and refrigerate in a separate bowl. After at least an hour I then mix the two together. The ingredients are a little stiff but the chilled lettuce doesn’t wilt and the salad remains good to eat for several days. Since it’s just my husband and I we can enjoy it longer. Yum!
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I've made this multiple times with rave reviews....I make a little extra dressing, Add an extra slice of bacon per batch. So if I'm doubling the recipe I add 2 extra slices. I also add garlic powder... the last tweak is use angel hair shredded green cabbage instead of lettuce. It won't get soggy and holds up well after multiple days in the fridge????
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I found the dressing to be too thin, will reduce the amount of liquid next time.
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I only had yellow onions on hand, and replaced the lettuce with basil (as our garden is overrun with it). Super yummy! -
i, too, used half mayo and half sour cream (both half fat), mostly because i was almost out of mayo. if i'd thought of it i'd have used the homemade yogurt but oh well. i'm a vegetarian and couldn't find simulated bacon bits around here for anything right now so i did a C-L-T and used cubed cheddar instead. next time if i can't find fackon bits i might try vegetarian ham slices. i did add about a tsp of liquid smoke to the dressing for more flavor and that was a GREAT addition! fyi, 7oz of dry pasta is about half a box of smart pasta, which was plenty. i had to use a vegetarian chicken bouillon cube crumbled up as fine as i could get it since the vegetarian versions don't come in powder form. i was concerned about the small lumps that remained no matter what i did but it blended fine once on the salad. i wish i'd thought to grab some fresh lettuce from the garden instead of the tasteless iceburg in the fridge but oh well. this turned out lovely, flavorful, mild, and filling. will certainly make again! i've got the leftovers packaged with the lettuce separate for lunch tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Laura36
United States
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