Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad
Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad is an easy macaroni salad recipe loaded with bacon, chopped green onions, diced red peppers and slivered almonds all tossed in mayo and Thai sweet chili sauce.
Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad is as an easy side dish perfect for potluck parties.
This macaroni salad is loaded with bacon and tossed with a sweet and spicy sauce.
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Pasta salad is one of my favourite side dishes but I don't like most of those boring premade ones from the grocery store.
For this pasta salad I wanted to use bacon ( because everything is better with bacon!) and Sweet Chili Thai sauce because I love that sweet heat.
To make my salad I started by boiling some macaroni.
Once the macaroni was cooked I drained it and rinsed it with cold water to cool it off.
I left the macaroni to dry a bit while I chopped some red peppers, green onions and yellow onions.
In a large mixing bowl I combined the macaroni with the chopped vegetables, some real bacon bits and slivered almonds.
I added some mayo and sweet chili sauce, salt and pepper and stirred it all together really well.
I covered the bowl and put the macaroni salad in the fridge to chill for two hours before serving so that the macaroni had time to really absorb all the flavours.
This Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad is the perfect BBQ side dish.
If you are looking for more side dish recipes check out Cheesy Ritz Cracker Corn and Bacon & Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes.
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Ingredients You'll Need to Make This Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad:
- 12 oz macaroni noodles, uncooked
- 1 cup red peppers, diced
- ½ cup yellow onion, diced
- 1 bunch green onions, chopped
- 3.5 oz slivered almonds
- 1 cup real bacon bits
- 1 cup mayo
- ½ cup sweet chili sauce
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
Instructions:
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook macaroni according to instructions on the package.
- Drain the cooked macaroni and rinse with cold water to cool it off. After rinsing, shake the strainer a bit to get as much water off the macaroni as you can.
- In a large mixing bowl combine the macaroni with the diced red peppers, yellow onions, green onions, bacon bits and almonds.
- Add in the mayo, sweet chili sauce, salt and pepper. Stir well until everything is coated in the dressing.
- Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad
Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad is the perfect side dish for potluck parties. This cold macaroni salad loaded with bacon, red peppers and green onions is tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce. This is an easy BBQ side dish recipe.
Ingredients
- 12 oz macaroni noodles, uncooked
- 1 cup red peppers, diced
- ½ cup yellow onion, diced
- 1 bunch green onions, chopped
- 3.5 oz slivered almonds
- 1 cup real bacon bits
- 1 cup mayo
- ½ cup sweet chili sauce
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook macaroni according to instructions on the package.
- Drain the cooked macaroni and rinse with cold water to cool it off. After rinsing, shake the strainer a bit to get as much water off the macaroni as you can.
- In a large mixing bowl combine the macaroni with the diced red peppers, yellow onions, green onions, bacon bits and almonds.
- Add in the mayo, sweet chili sauce, salt and pepper. Stir well until everything is coated in the dressing.
- Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.
- Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 8Amount Per Serving: Calories: 527
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This is my third time making this. So easy and delicious,the family loves it.
Made this tonight and family loved it!!
My family loves this macaroni salad and I have made it twice this month.
The first time I made it, my husband did the shopping, and bought Hickory Smoke bacon bites and I didn’t like it. The next time I made it I doubled the recipe and skipped the bacon bites.
If the bacon is important to you, I would suggest you fry your own bacon or find real bacon bites.
Make it, is delicious!