Pasta Veggie Fruit Salad Recipe – Easy One Dish Meal!

Pasta Veggie Fruit Salad Recipe

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This easy pasta veggie fruit salad recipe makes a quick and delicious meal that’s perfect for a hot day. The salad features spiral pasta, tender chicken, crunchy celery, sweet green grapes, juicy mandarin oranges, crisp water chestnuts, and a mix of chopped green pepper and red onion. It’s a vibrant, one-dish meal everyone will love. Prepare it in the morning, and when dinner time rolls around, just set it on the table—no fuss, no stress!

• Author: Jill Cooper

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups uncooked spiral pasta

1 1/2 cups chicken, cooked and cubed

1 1/2 cups celery, chopped

1 cup green grapes, halved

1 (11 oz.) can mandarin oranges, drained

1 (6 oz.) can water chestnuts, drained

1/4 cup green pepper, chopped

1/4 cup red onion, chopped

Dressing

1/4 cup mayonnaise

1/4 cup ranch dressing

Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

1. Cook the pasta.
2. While it is cooking, chop the rest of the ingredients and mix.
3. Mix the dressing ingredients together.
4. Add pasta and mix everything.
5. Chill.
6. Garnish with toasted slivered almonds, if desired.

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Meal Plan For The Pasta Veggie Fruit Salad Recipe

Here’s a quick and easy meal plan, perfect for summer or any time you feel like a cool and delicious dinner!

Pasta Veggie Fruit Salad*
Bread, Butter and Jam
Corn on the Cob
Banana Split Cake*

Helpful Kitchen Tips:

• Keep a toothbrush in your kitchen to clean things like graters, beaters, chopper blades and other hard to clean small items.
• Keep another toothbrush in your kitchen to clean places like around your faucets, appliance knobs, sink drain, etc.
• Use Dow bathroom cleaner in the kitchen to clean anything with grease on it. I just spray it on and it literally melts away the grease and dirt. It is especially good to use for places like the back of the stove where the knobs are or on shelves where that greasy kitchen grime can build up.
• Don’t just wipe things in a kitchen with a wet rag. Not only are you not cleaning anything, you are probably making it worse. Use soapy water to wipe things down.Hot soapy water cleans almost everything, especially in the kitchen, but it doesn’t hurt every once in a while to put some Clorox in your dish water to use to wipe things. Remember, you don’t need half a cup of bleach, only a capful or two. Stop worrying so much about what a few drops of Clorox is going to do to your family and worry more about what food poisoning will do to them because you didn’t clean the right way with the right stuff.

For lots of quick and easy menus with recipes that you can make in 30 minutes or less, check out our Quick And Easy Menus On A Dime meal guide.