Recipe: Tasty cucumber pasta salad

cucumber pasta salad. With minimum cooking, this is perfect for a summer night. This light and tangy cucumber pasta salad is fresh and bright. The orecchiette pasta holds the dressing for flavor in every bite, but you can use another small pasta shape if you like.

Whisk vinegar, sugar, water, vegetable oil, mustard, salt, and black pepper in a separate bowl until sugar and salt have dissolved. Pour dressing over the pasta mixture and toss lightly to coat with dressing. Add oil, cucumbers, onions, & tomatoes to bowl. You can cook cucumber pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of cucumber pasta salad

1. You need 3 of chicken breasts.
2. Prepare 1 small of amount of olive oil.
3. Prepare 1/2 box of fav kind of noodles (thicker keeps from getting soggy).
4. Prepare 2 large of cucumbers.
5. Prepare 1/2 small of sweet onion.
6. You need 1 of cracked pepper to taste.
7. Prepare 1 can of whole olives.
8. You need 6 tbsp of red wine vinger.
9. It's 1 cup of sour cream.
10. You need 6 tsp of sugar or so to taste.
11. Prepare 1 of fresh dill to taste.

Mix remaining ingredients & pour over pasta & veggies & toss. Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and rinse in cold water. Place pasta in a large bowl; stir in the oil, cucumbers and onion. In a small bowl, whisk the remaining ingredients.

cucumber pasta salad instructions

1. when cooking the noodles under cook by a min. to keep the noodles from getting to soggy over night in the fridge..
2. peel, slice, and score(with a fork) your cucumbers.
3. heat oil in a skillet, to cook the chicken.
4. cut up the chicken.
5. let the noodles and chicken completely cool before mixing in your mixture..
6. slice your onions in rings.
7. mix everything into a bowl.
8. then chill for atleast four hrs in the fridge. over night for the best results.
9. for substitutes purple(red) onions, ranch for the sour cream (or half of the sour cream).

Pour over salad; toss to coat. Creamy Cucumber Pasta Salad takes my favorite summer cucumber salad and turns it into a delicious meal. Loaded with tender pasta, crisp juicy cucumbers, fresh dill and sweet white onion, this dish will be the hit of every potluck! Someone always seems to want the recipe! —Paula Ishii, Ralston, Nebraska Cook pasta according to directions for "al dente" ; rinse. Combine dressing, seasoned salt, pepper, dill weed, half & half.

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