Creamy Italian Four Bean Pasta Salad
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Using simple ingredients from your pantry; pasta, olives and Paisley Farm Four Bean Salad, added to some fresh cucumbers and onion, mixed with an easy homemade creamy Italian dressing, and you have a quick and delicious picnic pasta salad!
There are lots of times I need to throw together a quick pasta salad. Maybe a last minute invite to a barbecue, an impromptu lunch with the girls, or church will call me requesting one for one of the food committees that I am on. I try to always keep things in my pantry that allow me to make a salad like that in a snap. This is one of those kinds of salads.
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Best part, is it’s so easily adaptable. Don’t like olives? Omit them, or try something else. Artichokes are super good in this one, too!
This time I used a tri-colored rotini noodle. Love the extra color it adds, and the rotini noodles are great, because they hold on to that dressing and cheese. The red onion and cucumbers add that crunch, and the bean salad, it just comes perfect to the salad party — right out of the jar!
We eat Paisley Farm Four Bean Salad as a side dish all the time. It doesn’t get much easier then opening the jar and pouring it into a bowl. (or right out of the jar when nobody’s looking … don’t judge) .
Paisley Farm Food’s signature All Natural Four Bean Salad is a sweet blend of kidney, garbanzo, green, and wax beans accented with freshly diced onions and red peppers. The convenient straight from the jar goodness makes this one of their most popular items. Colorful and delicious, their Four Bean Salad can be served and enjoyed from gourmet table settings to summer picnics, and everywhere in between.
But as good as it is out of the jar, adding it as a salad topper, or changing the flavors up just a bit with additions of other vegetables and herbs, is always fun, too!
A bed of baby spinach leaves, topped with Paisley Farm Four Bean Salad, thick bacon, crunchy brussels sprouts, ripe tomatoes, hard boiled egg, olives and red onion all topped with the creamiest homemade roasted garlic dressing.
Last weekend, when the kids were all home, we grilled some BBQ Pork Ribs. My kids love BBQ, and these ribs are fall off the bone delicious! All we needed was a great side dish {{enter this pasta salad}} and a whole bunch of napkins!
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Let’s make a pasta salad! 
Creamy Italian Four Bean Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 1 12 ounce box Tri-Colored Rotini Pasta, cooked al dente
- 1 heaping cup Paisley Farm Four Bean Salad
- 1 2.25 ounce can sliced black olives
- 1/2 cup sliced cucumbers
- 1/4 cup red onion sliced thin
- Grated Parmesan cheese and fresh Italian parsley for serving, if desired
The dressing:
- 1/3 cup mayo
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- 2 heaping teaspoons Italian Salad dressing seasoning
Instructions
- Rinse cooked pasta in cold water. Set aside.
- Prepare dressing, set aside.
- Place salad contents in bowl, give it a toss. Add dressing, mix it up. Top with Parmesan cheese and Italian parsley if desired.
- Chill until ready to serve.
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This looks like another great dish for the summer grilling season. We are always looking for a delicious pasta recipe to pass and can;t wait to put this beauty together!
Love that this pasta salad can be whipped up in no time! The addition of the Italian four beans takes this dish up a level from simple side to a main meal! Delicious!
Delicious! Love the creamy salad dressing and all the bright fresh flavor you’ve brought to this great salad, YUM!!!
Pantry salads are the best! So easy to mix up without all of the stress of hitting up a grocery store! This one looks so good too…. I happen to have everything to make it! Thats a sign right??
As if pasta salad couldn’t get any better, you spring this recipe on me with all the creamy deliciousness and the extra protein with the beans! YUM!