Whether you’re feeding a crowd or just have a garden overflowing with cucumbers, this easy pasta salad is always a hit, and it’s the perfect dish to bring to a cookout. It’s crispy, cold, sweet and refreshing – just what you want during the summer heat. Cut the sugar in half to make it a healthy option.
Recipe: Cool Cucumber Pasta Salad
The perfect recipe for a potluck or summer cookout.
Ingredients
- 8 ounces tube pasta
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 medium cucumbers, thinly sliced
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 1-1/2 cups sugar (I usually use ¾ cup – the full recipe is a little sweet for me)
- 1 cup water
- ¾ cup vinegar
- 1 tablespoon mustard
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- ½ teaspoon garlic salt
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions; drain and rinse in cold water.
- Place in a large bowl; stir in oil, cucumbers and onion.
- Combine remaining ingredients; pour over salad and toss.
- Cover and chill for 3 – 4 hours.
- Serve with a slotted spoon.
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YUMMMYYYY!!! Hope you all had a great long weekend.
Looks so good. Our garden is just about ready for the picking & we should have lots of cucumbers. We'll have to try this out. Yum! Following you from Tip Junkie‘s link party. Would love to have you link this up to my {wow me} wednesday link party going on right now over on my blog. Hope to see you there. 🙂
Ginger
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Sounds great! I love cucumber and I've never had anything like this! Thanks so much for sharing it!
That salad looks so fresh and yummy for summer. I wanted to invite you to come over and share your recipe at These Chicks Cooked Recipe Spotlight today. Have a great day 🙂
Katie
That does sounds like a hit to me. Pasta and fresh cold cucumbers…perfect summer salad if you ask me.
Hope you can come by and this recipe at Foodie Wednesday
http://www.frugalwannabecooks.com/2011/02/blue-cheese-wedge-salad.html
I'm not a huge cucumber fan but I'm sure my hubby and boys would have no problem finishing this off on their own:)
Yummy. This is like my cucumber salad except with pasta. I never thought of adding pasta.
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two of my favorites cool cucumbers and pasta together sounds awesome come see me at http://shopannies.blogspot.com and see what I shared
Oh my, that looks sooo good. I'm copying and pasting the recipe so I can print it – cannot wait to try it. I love cucumbers so much, and the combination here sounds really yummy. Thanks for sharing at Motivate Me Monday – and I'm your neweest follower!
Awesome! Thanks! Always looking for new dishes to bring to those cookouts. I’m SO Pinning this!