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This quick and easy Creamy Cucumber Pasta Salad combines a creamy dressing – like a mixture of Greek yogurt or sour cream – with freshly sliced cucumbers and red onions along with plenty of chopped dill! It’s the perfect unique pasta salad recipe for your next barbecue party.
Loaded with tender pasta, crisp juicy cucumbers, fresh dill and red onion, this dish will be the hit of every get together. And it comes together within just few minutes and it’s incredibly delicious! The dressing in this salad doesn’t have a lot of ingredients, but that’s really the beauty of this recipe! The fresh Greek yogurt adds a little zip to the dressing while the dill adds summery freshness complementing the cucumber and cooked pasta perfectly!
If you have access to fresh dill, it really makes a huge difference in this salad.
Ingredients in Creamy Cucumber Pasta Salad Recipe?
- Pasta: penne or rotini pasta
- Cucumbers: fresh long English cucumbers work the best for this recipe
- Onion: red onion (can sub white for less of a “bite”)
- Dressing: sour cream or Greek yogurt and vinegar
- Herb: fresh dill
- Spices: salt and pepper
Ist Gather Your Equipment’s:
- a Sharp Knife, for cutting
- a round spoon, to remove seeds
- Spatula, for mixing
- Cutting Board
- Hand Whisker
- Large Glass Bowl
How to Make this Creamy Cucumber Pasta Salad:
This is such an easy recipe, y’all. Seriously. Yes to Summer recipes that don’t require hardly any effort!
1. First, begin by cooking your pasta according to the box instructions! Make sure to salt your water and cook the pasta until al dente. Once it’s done, let it cool! If desired, rinse cold water over top to stop the cooking and speed up the cooling process.
Cook pasta. drizzle with oil 
Sprinkle pepper and toss to coat evenly.
2. While the pasta is cooling off, slice up your cucumber! Slice it in half lengthwise and then slice very thin slices of cucumber.
Cut the cucumber in half lengthwise 
remove seeds using a spoon
Dice it into thin slices. 
and its done !!
3. Do the same thing with the red onion! Thin slices go a long way here, folks! While it’s not required, soaking the onions in cold water for a few minutes takes just a little bit of bite out of them. .
Thinly slice onion 
place in a bowl of cold water
4. Next, mix together the delicious Greek yogurt dill dressing! Combine the Greek yogurt with the dill, vinegar, salt (i added the pink salt) and pepper. Mix until deliciously thick and creamy. Set this aside.
Mix dressing ingredients 
Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.
5. In a large bowl, add your cooled off pasta. On top, add your cucumbers, onions and all of the Greek yogurt dressing! Mix together gently until fully combined.
Add pasta, cucumber and onion 
Pour dressing over it.
6. Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary. I always love garnishing with a big pinch of extra dill – it makes it taste extra fresh and adds an amazing pop of flavor.
Toss to combine sprinkle some extra dill (if desired)
7. Let it sit in the fridge for about 20-30 minutes to make sure all of the flavors can melt together and it can stay cold! Enjoy when chilled and eat up! 🙂
Note: If possible try to toss this at least 1 hour before serving to allow the flavors to blend.
Bismillah let’s get started.
Check it out The Creamy Cucumber Pasta Salad Recipe and printable version here!!
Want more Pasta Salad Inspiration?
Here are some other Pasta Salad recipes on my blog:
Hope you guys loved this one and are having a great Summer. Let me know what your favorite garden produce is this time of year in the comments below!
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