This Dill Pickle Pasta Salad is so flavorful but still easy to make. If you have pasta salad lovers in your life, this pasta has a delightful pickle flavor. The ingredients are simple, and probably already in your pantry and fridge.
Why I Love this Dill Pickle Pata Salad
This salad makes a wonderfully large salad. It's perfect to bring as a side. Or, if you have people in and out (kids in sports etc), this is the perfect salad for people to help themselves. It's an inexpensive salad to make, it's flavorful and filling. My vegetarians enjoy it also. The sauce has a wonderful pickle flavor and is also creamy enough to cover everything well.
Ingredients for creamy dill pickle dressing
1 pound (box) small pasta appropriate for pasta salad
½ cup Miracle Whip
½ cup mayonaise
½ cup sour cream
1 cup cheddar cheese diced
1 cup pickles diced (about 5 medium sized pickles)
½ cup pickle juice - divided
½ red onion chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Cook one box of small pasta according to package directions. You want it al dente so run it under cold water to stop the cooking process. Drain well.
In a large bowl, place pasta and about ¼ cup pickle juice. Stir occasionally, and mix dressing while letting the pickle flavor gets absorbed by the pasta.
Let pasta with pickle juice sit for 5 minutes then drain. I usually make the dressing while this sits.
Directions for Dressing
In a small bowl, mix, miracle whip, mayonnaise, and sour cream. Add enough pickle juice to make a smooth spreadable dressing. Add some salt and pepper to taste. You can always add more later.
Combine everything for dill pickle salad
Add dressing to drained pasta, along with diced cheddar cheese, pickles, and red onions.
Stir to cover pasta and all ingredients with creamy pickle dressing.
Creamly Dill Pickle Pasta Salad
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 7
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Category: salad
- Cuisine: American
Description
A delicious and easy-to-make dill pickle salad with a creamy and flavorful dill pickle dressing. Perfect for a large gathering or to bring along for a potluck. Ingredients are probably already in your pantry and fridge!
Ingredients
1 pound (box) small pasta appropriate for pasta salad
½ cup Miracle Whip
½ cup mayonaise
½ cup sour cream
1 cup cheddar cheese diced
1 cup pickles diced (about 5 medium-sized pickles)
½ cup pickle juice - divided
½ red onion chopped
salt and pepper to taste
fresh dill or green onion as an optional garnish
Instructions
Cook one box (1 pound) of small pasta to al dente stage according to package directions. Rinse with cold water to stop cooking.
In a large bowl, place pasta and about ¼ cup pickle juice.
Stir occasionally. Let sit 5 to 10 minutes to allow the pickle flavor gets absorbed by the pasta.
Drain prior to adding dressing.
Dressing
Mix mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, and sour cream until well combined. Add enough pickle juice to make dressing smooth and just pourable. The thickness of dill pickle dressing is a personal preference and totally depends on how much pickle juice you use.
Add dressing to drained pasta, along with diced cheddar cheese, pickles, and red onions.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Mix all ingredients with pasta so the dressing evenly covers the pasta, cheese, onions, and pickles.
Notes
This creamy dill pickle pasta salad is easy and inexpensive to make. It is a perfect salad to bring to pass or to make if feeding a large group. My vegetarians also really enjoy this salad!
Keywords: pasta salad, dill pickle pasta salad
momcrieff
Hope you had a fun lunch with your girlfriends!
momcrieff
Hope you enjoy the dill pickle pasta salad. It's a pasta salad with a little extra zing so people do enjoy it!
Anita Holland
I will definitely be trying that. I would never have thought to add all those ingredients to pasta. But then again I am a very boring cook.
Cat Michaels
Definitely bringing this to my summer girlfriend lunch next week! Thanks for the idea, Susan -:D
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