Steps to Make Award-winning Tuna pasta salad

Tuna pasta salad. This healthy tuna pasta salad recipe is tasty, filling, and great for a light summer meal. It's a fabulous make-ahead pasta salad that's perfect for gatherings like potlucks or BBQs. This Tuna Pasta Salad with shell noodles, peas, tuna, celery, and Greek yogurt is fast, healthy, and a dish your whole family can enjoy!

I love pasta salads and I'm a big tuna salad fan, so this classic tuna pasta salad is something I can really enjoy. While this easy tuna macaroni salad is great for picnics and barbecues. This Tuna Pasta Salad is not only healthy, filling, and utterly delicious, it is easy to make and loaded with flavor. You can cook Tuna pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Tuna pasta salad

1. Prepare 3 cups of Rotini noodles.
2. You need As needed of Shredded carrots.
3. It's 3-4 of Celery Stalks.
4. You need 4 of hard boiled eggs.
5. You need 1 can of tuna (drained).
6. It's To taste of Bacon bits.
7. It's To taste of Hidden Valley ranch dressing.
8. You need To taste of Mayonnaise.
9. You need optional of Shredded cheese.
10. It's optional of Seasonings.

Made with protein-packed tuna, peas, whole-wheat pasta, celery. Your standard pasta salad recipe is getting a refresh. Flaky tuna, briny black olives, sweet cherry tomatoes, and a bright squeeze of lemon juice all come together in this tuna pasta salad recipe. How to make tuna pasta salad.

Tuna pasta salad instructions

1. Cook noodles and drain.
2. Cut up celery and shred carrots. Add to drained noodles..
3. Add in tuna.
4. Sprinkle in the bacon bits.
5. Boil 4 eggs for 15minutes. Run cold water over the pan of eggs for a bit and drain. Fill pan of eggs with cold water again, crack eggs(don't Peel), let cracked eggs sit in the cool water for a bit. Peel eggs, cut eggs in half, and take out hard yolk. Dice up white parts of the eggs in small pieces. In a small bowl, take a fork and smash up egg yolks..
6. Add the diced eggs and smashed yolks to the pasta pan.
7. Add in mayonnaise and ranch dressing. I put a little more mayo than ranch..
8. Add in the shredded cheese and seasonings, stir it up (optional).
9. Best served cold*.

This next part is only a photo tutorial of the recipe steps. If you're looking for the full recipe measurements and instructions, scroll down to Recipe Details. This tuna pasta salad recipe is going to be a hit too, I think. Especially if you like avocado in your pasta salad I prefer to let this cold tuna pasta salad chill out in the fridge for an hour or two before eating. This Healthy Tuna Pasta Salad Recipe is a lighter take on the traditional mayo-filled version!