Description
This Cheeseburger Pasta Salad is a delicious and pretty healthy combination of two of the best comfort foods! It makes for a colorful, veggie filled, and fun summer side dish or even a main course. A total crowd pleaser.
Ingredients
Scale
Pasta Salad
- 8 oz whole wheat pasta
- 1 small onion
- 2 large garlic cloves
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup chopped cherry tomatoes
- 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped pickles
- 1/2 cup shredded lettuce
- salt
- pepper
Burger Sauce Dressing
- 2 tbsp mayo (read rest of post for the one i like!)
- 1 1/2 tbsp ketchup
Instructions
- Start by boiling the pasta.
- While the water is boiling chop the yellow onion and garlic.
- Pour the olive oil into a pan over medium heat. Sauté the onion and garlic with salt and pepper until soft and fragrant.
- Add in the ground beef and cook through. Add some more salt and pepper.
- Drain the pasta and add to a large bowl to set aside. I recommend adding a splash of olive oil to the pasta and mixing, to avoid sticking.
- Drain any excess oil from the ground beef and set aside in another bowl.
- Chop the tomatoes, red onion, pickles, and lettuce.
- Combine the ketchup and mayo until smooth in a small bowl.
- Once the pasta and ground beef have cooled, add 1 1/2 cups of the ground beef mixture to the pasta. Or add more or less, totally up to you.
- Then add in the tomatoes, red onion, pickles, lettuce, and cheddar cheese. Combine everything.
- Pour on desired amount of the burger sauce dressing. The batch pictured uses all of it.
- Store in the fridge and enjoy!
Notes
- You will have leftover ground beef with these measurements! If you don’t want leftover ground beef I would recommend adding a serving or two of pasta or only cooking 3/4 of the ground beef.
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