I loved this salad! Needed a recipe for a pot luck and decided to try this one. Only changes I made (because of what I had available) was to use chicken instead of tuna dried cranberries instead of the raisins and mayo instead of salad dressing. I had to make copies of the recipe for everyone at the pot luck....and now it is a favorite in many homes! Thanks for sharing this great recipe!
Made this for a cook out made it for 20 people Everyone liked it. Would make it again. Increased the amount of carrot and raisins just for color.
Awesome! I made one alteration I used ham flakes instead of tuna because we have people in our family who won't eat tuna. Terrific and easy to make!
YUM! I needed to use up some cooked whole wheat farfalle (bow tie pasta) and wanted a salad with pasta and ranch so I did a search and this one came up. I'm glad I chose it! I did make some changes based on reviews and what I had on hand. I can't have store-bought Ranch Dressing so I make my own. Instead of using the salad dressing/mayo and the dry mix I just used an equal amount of already prepared Ranch Dressing. I used a can of chicken breast instead of tuna dried cranberries instead of raisens (rest of the family doesn't like them) and shredded the carrot. Since I didn't have tri-color pasta the salad needed some green so I added chopped parsely. I used a Fuji apple and sharp cheddar. Scrumptous! Thanks for the quick and easy and delicoius recipe!
Great salad to bring anywhere! I followed another reviewer's suggestion and added dried cranberries instead of raisins the whole 6oz package because they are tasty! I also used canned chicken because not many at my BBQ preferred the tuna. As a creamy salad dressing I used Ranch.
This recipe is great. I substituted dressing for reduced fat mayo tuna for canned salmon used whole grain pasta and cheddar for swiss. results were spectacular.
This was good but needed a little fixing up. After a night in the fridge all the dressing was soaked in by the pasta but I just poured some plain youghurt on it and that worked great. Also tossed in some extra raisins because it was a bit bland. Adding some mixed seeds also helps change it up. A nice pasta salad that I ate happily for an entire week for lunch.
Rave Reviews at our family BBQ tonight! Modifications: used the whole packet of ranch used some sour cream along with the mayonnaise. Omitted the raising and added a chopped yellow pepper. Truly delicious everyone had 2-3 helpings! THANKS!
oooo very different I like it! I used mayo and I think you may need more than 1 cup since it really soaks into the pasta but what a great change to the same old mayo mustard vinegar recipe
I was really disappointed with this recipe. It was bland and no one in my family wanted to eat it which is rare because tuna/pasta salads usually are something I can get everyone to eat. I made it according to the directions (using whole wheat pasta)
