20 flavour filled recipes for pasta salads & potato salads that all make terrific additions to summer barbecue dinners or with leftover cold cuts any time!
20 Pasta Salads & Potato Salads
Here’s our latest recipe collection of 20 absolutely delicious Pasta Salads & Potato Salads.
As summer approaches, this is perhaps the best time of year to add to your collection of go-to recipes for pasta salads & potato Salad. These are the days of great family summer barbecues, cookouts and picnics, so what better time to find some new ideas to add to the take-along cooler.
If you’d like other ideas for side dishes be sure to check out our Best Barbecue Side Dishes Page.
Recipes for year round.
These tasty side dishes are not just for summer barbecues though. Any one of these would make a terrific take-along to a pot-luck meal at any time of the year.
20 Pasta Salads & Potato Salads
Orzo Salad with Low Fat Chipotle Ranch Dressing - bursting with great fresh flavour, this tasty pasta salad can even be made fat free by using non-fat yogurt in the dressing!
The great 70's throwback dish, Waldorf Salad, gets a reworking as a Lemon Waldorf Potato Salad. An amazingly delicious side dish with anything barbecue!
Bacon Potato Salad with Sweet Mustard Dressing This satisfying bacon potato salad with a sweet and tangy mustard dressing borrows the best from a combination of a few favorite potato salad recipes.
Honey Dijon Pasta Salad - a great lunch item, side dish, pot luck addition or picnic take along recipe.
Warm Grilled Potato Salad with Lemon and Oregano - A tasty, warm grilled potato salad with plenty of bright fresh flavours in the dressing and finished with some crumbled feta cheese.
Creamy Curry Orzo Salad - Here's a terrific, easy, flavorful summer side dish perfect for cookouts, barbecues and picnics. Delicious with lots of different grilled meats or fish.
Lemon Tzatziki Potato Salad. A fantastic side dish potato salad that uses low fat yogurt in place of mayonnaise for a tasty Greek inspired flavour twist.
Warm Honey Dijon Potato Salad - add plenty of flavour to plain potatoes with this simple quick side dish to serve with chicken, beef, pork or fish.
With a low fat, yogurt based dressing this shrimp pasta salad makes a sensible addition to your summer BBQ table or as a side dish at any time of the year.
Deviled Egg Potato Salad - a simple combination of flavours in a very satisfying version of potato salad that you will use year round, from summer barbecues to winter pot luck dinners.
Lemon Mint Orzo Salad - a super easy, super fresh summer pasta salad, that makes a delicious barbecue side dish!
Penne Pasta Salad with Shrimp Chili & Lime. A deliciously simple pasta salad that's terrific to serve with cold cuts, grilled, chicken or fish, or as an ideal BBQ side dish.
Copycat Kraft Macaroni Salad - a recipe for those who miss the discontinued boxed macaroni salad mix from Kraft. This recipe replicates the garlic and herb flavours and adds a little fresh red pepper too.
Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing - easy to make as a low fat dressing too, plus ideas for bacon Ranch Pasta Salad and Bacon Ranch Egg Salad.
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