Dill Pickle Pasta Salad
May 02, 2025 05:11 AM
If you’re a pickle lover, then I have the perfect pasta salad for you! Chopped dill pickles, bacon pieces, sharp cheddar, and crisp red onion, combined with pasta and an ultra-creamy dill pickle dressing! Perfect for summer cookouts and potlucks, and super easy to customize to your tastes.
Pasta salads are such an iconic summer food… in fact, at just about every cookout this summer, you’ll probably see a bowl of some kind of pasta or macaroni salad.
Everyone loves them, and they’re the ultimate thing to BRING to a cookout, because you can make them up ahead of time.
That being said, some pasta salads are… well… pretty boring! A handful of vegetables, mushy/flavorless pasta, and some dressing that tastes like plain mayonnaise… sound familiar?
But not this one. This salad is loaded with flavor, and is anything but boring.
It’s perfect for pickle lovers, as it’s bursting with not only plenty of dill pickles and fresh dill, but the pasta is actually soaked in pickle juice, amplifying all that goodness and flavor!
Your potlucks and cookouts this summer deserve a big bowl of this pasta!
Ingredients:
Dressing
- 1 1/3 cups mayonnaise
- 2/3 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup pickle juice from the jar
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- generous pinch cayenne pepper
Pasta salad
- 16 oz box dried rotini pasta
- 1 1/2 cups diced dill pickles
- 1 cup diced sharp cheddar cheese from a block
- 1/3 cup minced red onion
- 1/2 cup pickle juice from the jar
- 3 – 4 Tbsp minced fresh dill or about 1 – 1.5 Tbsp of dried dill
- 5 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
- 2 green onions diced
Garnishes (optional)
- additional crumbled bacon
- additional pickles
- additional green onions
- additional black pepper
Prep Time:
15 minutes
Cook Time:
8 minutes
Total Time:
93 minutes
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