How To Make Avocado Pasta Salad
This delicious pasta salad is tossed with crisp bacon, cherry tomatoes, and green onions, then dressed with creamy avocado lime dressing.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking: 12 minutes
Chill Time: 1 hour
Total: 1 hour 22 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
For Salad:
- 8ozpasta,rotini or bow tie
- 1cupcherry tomatoes,diced
- 8slicesbacon,cooked crisp and crumbled
- 1green onion,thinly sliced
- 2tbspcilantro,chopped
- 1avocado,diced
- 1tsplime juice
For Dressing:
- 1ripe avocado
- ½fresh lime,juiced
- ¼cupcilantro,chopped
- ½tspcumin
- ½tspgarlic powder
- ½cupbuttermilk
- salt and pepper,to taste
Instructions
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Place all dressing ingredients in a blender and process until smooth.
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Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and run under cold water.
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Toss diced avocado with lime juice.
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Combine all ingredients in a large bowl gently toss with dressing.
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Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving.
Nutrition
- Calories: 642.08kcal
- Fat: 39.09g
- Saturated Fat: 10.21g
- Trans Fat: 0.08g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 20.20g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 5.96g
- Carbohydrates: 57.13g
- Fiber: 9.75g
- Sugar: 5.66g
- Protein: 18.49g
- Cholesterol: 39.50mg
- Sodium: 711.71mg
- Calcium: 80.38mg
- Potassium: 928.38mg
- Iron: 2.08mg
- Vitamin A: 43.62µg
- Vitamin C: 20.31mg
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