Pea & Pasta Salad II
This sounds really good! The added cheese and the Italian dressing sound great. This is a good base that you can easily change to make it your own, or to make it different each time you prepare it. Link to the shortcut is listed in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 1 cup dry maccheroni pasta, or shells, spirals, or macaroni
- 3 hard boiled eggs, chopped
- 1/2 cup Ranch dressing, OR make from a shortcut
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar
- salt, to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cups frozen peas, thawed, or drained canned
- 3 spring onions, chopped
- 2 medium sweet pickles, chopped
- 2 stalks imported celery, chopped or handful of Thai celery
- 1-2 cups Cheddar cheese, cubed
Instructions
- Cook the pasta in a pot of lightly salted water until tender, then cook for another 1-2 minutes, then drain and rinse under cold water. Place in a large bowl.
- Whisk together the Ranch dressing, sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper.
- To the pasta, add the eggs, peas, spring onion, pickles, celery, and cheese and mix, then add the dressing and mix to coat everything, refrigerate for several hours prior to serving.
Notes
The cheese, if using 1 cup will be about 90 Baht, for 6 servings, this is about 44 cents per serving. If using 2 cups of cheese, figure this is about 88 cents per serving.
Variants: change the celery to a bell pepper, change the sweet pickles to dill pickles, change the cheese to Swiss, change the Ranch dressing to Bleu cheese dressing, etc.
Adapted from an internet recipe.
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