SPAM PASTA SALAD – The Southern Lady Cooks

This spam pasta salad is a wonderful dish! If you are a lover of spam, definitely add this one to your recipe list.

If you are a fan of spam, you will love these spam-fried potatoes. It’s one of our most popular recipes and a wonderful breakfast treat!

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE

We love the taste of this dish, the sweet pickles with the spam is really a great combination. This is also an easy recipe to make and it keeps well. We enjoyed this one for a few days and it’s goes great with just about any meal!

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

• Spam
• Pasta Shells
• Sweet Pickles
• Onion
• Green Pepper
• Cheddar Cheese
• Mayonnaise
• Sour Cream
• Celery Seeds
• Salt
• Pepper
• Sugar
• Garlic powder
• Yellow mustard
• Apple Cider Vinegar

SWAPS

You can swap out the sweet pickles for dill pickles. You could also use the turkey spam instead of the regular spam. You can also add boiled eggs to this salad.

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

The most time-consuming part of this recipe is boiling the pasta and chopping up the vegetables.

Step 1
Cook pasta according to instructions on box.  Drain and set aside

Step 2
Combine spam, pickles, onion, green pepper and cheese in a large bowl.  Add pasta when cooled.  Combine celery seeds, salt, pepper, sugar, garlic powder, yellow mustard, apple cider vinegar, mayonnaise and sour cream and whisk together. Toss with other ingredients. Refrigerate for several hours to let ingredients marry.

⭐TIP

This spam pasta salad is better cold, so you can easily make it a day in advance. Also, if you have the time, shred your own cheddar cheese. It’s so much better than bagged shredded cheese.

OTHER PASTA SALADS

If you have followed us for any amount of time you know we love pasta salads! Being from the south, the pasta salad is a must for most potluck gatherings.

SERVE THIS WITH

STORING & SERVING SIZE

Store in the refrigerator and it makes 8-10 servings.

Spam Pasta Salad

Anne Walkup

This Spam Pasta Salad is a great pasta salad using spam. If you love spam definitely give this one a try. We all loved it!

Prep Time 25 minutes mins

3 hours hrs

Course Salad, Side Dish

Cuisine American

• 1 12 ounce can spam, chopped
• 2 cups pasta shells uncooked
• 2 or 3 small sweet pickles chopped or about 1/4 cup
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1/3 cup chopped green pepper
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon celery seeds
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 2 teaspoons white granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon yellow mustard
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

• Cook pasta according to instructions on box. Drain and set aside.

• Combine spam, pickles, onion, green pepper and cheese in a large bowl. Add pasta when cooled. Combine celery seeds, salt, pepper, sugar, garlic powder, yellow mustard, apple cider vinegar, mayonnaise and sour cream and whisk together.

• Toss with other ingredients.

• Refrigerate for several hours to let ingredients marry.

Recipe could be halved. Could use dill pickles instead of sweet pickles. Could add chopped boiled eggs

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