Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad

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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.

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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Sweet Chili Bacon Pasta Salad

Prep Time

25 mins

Total Time

25 mins

 

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.

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Servings: 8 people

Calories: 527 kcal

Ingredients

• 12 oz macaroni noodles uncooked
• 1 cup red peppers diced
• 1/2 cup yellow onion diced
• 1 bunch green onions chopped
• 3.5 oz slivered almonds
• 1 cup real bacon bits
• 1 cup mayo
• 1/2 cup sweet chili sauce
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper

Instructions

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and cook macaroni according to instructions on the package.
2. 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.
3. In a large mixing bowl combine the macaroni with the diced red peppers, yellow onions, green onions, bacon bits and almonds.
4. Add in the mayo, sweet chili sauce, salt and pepper. Stir well until everything is coated in the dressing.
5. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.
6. Serve and enjoy!