BLT Pasta Salad
This bacon, lettuce and tomato pasta salad is going to be your NEW FAVORITE pasta salad! BLT salad comes together in minutes and will be a hit at your summer cookouts and picnics!
Hello and HAPPY FRIDAY!! It is actually a FREAKY FRIDAY over here! One of my favorite days!
I am so excited to be participating in this year’s Freaky Friday Blog Hop: Spring Edition! This group is the brainchild of my friend, Michaela’s and it is SO MUCH FUN! For those of you that aren’t familiar with Freaky Friday, it is a group of food bloggers that get assigned a secret blog and we get to choose any recipe we want to make from it for our own blogs. Then all of the recipes are revealed at the exact same time and we get to see who had our page and which recipe they selected! It has been a great way for me and my readers to find new blogs to follow, and I feel honored to be a part of it!
Check out my past Freaky Friday Recipes here:
P.F. Chang’s Lettuce Wrap Salad
Bacon-Cheeseburger Potato Soup
Cookies and Cream Ice cream Cake
10 Minute Chicken Ramen Stir Fry
Bacon Cheeseburger Mini Meatloaf Patties
PB & J Bar Cookies with Strawberry Jam
Creamy Gorgonzola Pasta with Steak
This time I was SO excited to be assigned Steph’s blog, A Grande Life. I have been following her amazing transition to the curly girl hair method instagram page. And she is pretty much HAIR GOALS for me!!! Steph also has a BEAUTIFUL family and is a rock star mom, wife, blogger, recipe developer, and photographer.
Her family is also crazy into sports like we are and her husband is coaching both her son’s travel baseball teams. Talk about BUSY! I 100% get it because my daughter plays 2 sports and my son plays 4 (for now, trying to ‘help’ him narrow that down 😉 )
She has SO many recipes that I want to try. It was tough to narrow it down to one this week. Spinach Strawberry and Walnut Salad with Creamy Raspberry Vinaigrette, Beer Cheese Soup, Garlic-Chinese Green Beans and Herbed Cheese Puffs all caught my eye immediately and are on our menu this month.
But this week, it was love at first sight when I saw her BLT Pasta Salad. My daughter and I made it for lunch last weekend and we BOTH had an absolute fit over it! It was so simple and fast to put together and it quickly became one of our favorite pasta salads!
You can also add grilled chicken to it for more protein and make it a more hearty meal. If you need to make it ahead of time, go ahead and mix everything together except for the lettuce and dressing, then toss with lettuce and dressing right before serving. Also, when you do prepare it, make SURE you rinse the pasta with cold water and that the pasta is ALL the way cool when you mix it so you don’t have wilted lettuce.
This bacon, lettuce and tomato pasta salad is going to be your NEW FAVORITE pasta salad! BLT salad comes together in minutes and will be a hit at your summer cookouts and picnics!
Save RecipeIngredients
- 2-1/2 cups uncooked bow tie pasta
- 6 cups torn romaine lettuce
- 1 medium tomato, diced
- 12 oz bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1/2 cup ranch dressing
- 1 Tablespoon barbecue sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and rinse pasta under cold water and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine tomato, bacon and pasta.
Add romaine lettuce.
Drizzle the ranch dressing and barbecue sauce over the top.
Season with pepper.
Gently toss to coat evenly.
Enjoy!
This bacon, lettuce and tomato pasta salad is going to be your NEW FAVORITE pasta salad! BLT salad comes together in minutes and will be a hit at your summer cookouts and picnics!
Take a look at all of our Spring 2019 Freaky Friday Recipes:
- A Grande Life – Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip
- An Affair from the Heart – Margarita Dip with Salted Pretzels
- Aunt Bee’s Recipes – BLT Pasta Salad
- Bowl Me Over – Macaroni Pasta Salad
- Hostess at Heart – Blueberry Buckle Recipe – Incredibly Easy To Make
- House of Nash Eats – Asparagus Tart
- Kylee Cooks – No Bake Blueberry Cheesecake
- LeMoine Family Kitchen – Slow Cooker Pork Carnitas Tacos
- Life Currents – Blackened Shrimp Pasta
- Lisa’s Dinnertime Dish – Spicy Thai Basil Slaw
- Mildly Meandering – Mediterranean Scalloped Potatoes
- Seduction in the Kitchen – Grilled Peach Caprese Salad
- Take Two Tapas – Spicy Bacon Wrapped Air Fryer Shrimp
- The Foodie Affair – Coconut Pie with Creamy Custard Filling
- The Speckled Palate – Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese
- West Via Midwest – Air Fryer Cherry Pies
- Who Needs a Cape? – Slow Cooker Cheesy Taco Soup
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