Broccoli Pasta Salad Amongst Grapes

Hey, create you lot dearest traditional broccoli salad?  Then you've got  to attempt it turned into a pasta salad!  Broccoli Pasta Salad alongside Grapes packs all the fabulous flavors of traditional broccoli salad, alongside the added hearty punch of pasta.

I've long been a fan of skillful ol' broccoli salad.  With it's slightly-sweet dressing, compaction of fresh raw broccoli, bacon saltiness, in addition to sweetness of grapes {or craisins, if you're my Mom}, it's similar a season rainbow inwards your mouth.  What's non to love?  {Unless of course, you lot don't similar broccoli ... inwards which case, you lot in all probability shouldn't last reading this post.  Just sayin'.}

But hey, broccoli salad gets fifty-fifty ameliorate alongside the improver of a hearty dose of pasta!
This Broccoli Pasta Salad alongside Grapes is i of those recipes that's been inwards my "gotta attempt this" pile forever.  We all bring that pile, right?

I know I certain do.

I tear recipes out of magazines all the time.  Beg recipes from my friends all the time.  Find goodies to attempt inwards novel cookbooks all the time.  Come upwards alongside novel ideas in addition to jot them downwards all the time.

And into a pile they go.

Oh, it's at i time at to the lowest degree an organized pile ... categorized in addition to filed inwards a pretty binder afterwards I got tired of earthworks through a real large ol' regular  pile.  But it's a pile, all the same.

So afterwards finding the inspiration for this delicious Broccoli Pasta Salad alongside Grapes inwards Southern Living Magazine most 3 years ago, I in conclusion got around to earthworks it out of the pile in addition to giving it a try.

Well, it was worth the wait.

Yes, this salad packs all the wonderful flavors of the traditional broccoli salad nosotros love.  And I dearest the improver of pasta.  It adds a soft textural chemical share to the compaction of the raw broccoli.  And adds a fleck to a greater extent than heartiness to the dish.

If you're looking for a flavorful salad to feed a crowd, or but desire to pose a novel footling spin on your classic broccoli salad, impress out this recipe in addition to orbit Broccoli Pasta Salad alongside Grapes a try.

Just don't stick the printout inwards your recipe pile ... It may but rest their untouched for most 3 years.  Like it did for me.

And it's way  too tasty for that.

Broccoli Pasta Salad alongside Grapes

Source:  Adapted from Southern Living Magazine, September 2011

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 2 c. dry bow-tie pasta {about 8 oz.}
• 4 c. fresh broccoli florets {about 1 pound}
• 1 1/2 c. halved seedless crimson grapes
• 1 c. chopped pecans
• 6 slices bacon, cooked in addition to crumbled
• 1 c. mayonnaise
• 1/4 c. granulated sugar
• 2/3 c. diced crimson onions
• 1/3 c. red vino vinegar
• 1 tsp. salt

Directions

1. Cook pasta according to packet directions. While pasta cooks, cutting broccoli florets into minor pieces.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, sugar, crimson onion, crimson vino vinegar, in addition to salt. Add broccoli, hot cooked pasta, in addition to grapes. Stir to combine. Cover in addition to chill inwards the fridge for most 3 hours.
3. Stir inwards bacon in addition to pecans but earlier serving.

Enjoy!

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