How To Make Mexican Pasta Salad
Grab a tasty, filling meal with this Mexican pasta salad packed with black beans, corn, and tomatoes, in a creamy cilantro lime dressing.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2earsfresh yellow corn,husked
- 10ozdry elbow macaroni
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1½cupsRoma tomatoes,(3 large), seeded and diced
- 1canblack beans,drained and rinsed well
- 1large avocado,semi-firm but ripe, diced
- ½cupCotija cheese,crumbled
- ⅓cupred onion,chopped, rinsed, or ⅔ cup chopped green onion or use a blend of both
For Dressing:
- ½cupmayonnaise,full fat
- ½cupplain Greek yogurt,fat free
- 2½tbspfresh lime juice
- ¼cupfresh cilantro,(about small 1 bunch), finely minced, leaf portion
- 1clovegarlic,minced
- 1tspancho chili powder
- ½tspground cumin
Instructions
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Preheat a grill over medium-high heat to about 450 degrees F.
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Once preheated, add corn and grill for about 8 to 9 minutes total, turning about every 2 to 3 minutes until charred on all sides. Set aside and let cool then cut corn kernels from cobs.
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Meanwhile, cook pasta to al dente in lightly salted water (about½ tablespoon) according to directions on the package. Drain and rinse, then let drain and cool.
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For the dressing, in a mixing bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, Greek yogurt, lime juice, cilantro, garlic, chili powder, cumin. Season with salt and pepper to taste (about ¾ teaspoon and salt ¼ teaspoon pepper). Chill until ready to assemble macaroni salad.
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Set aside some of the mix in ingredients (tomatoes, corn, avocado, onion) for topping if desired.
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In a salad bowl toss together drained macaroni, corn kernels, tomatoes, black beans, avocado, Cotija cheese, onion, and the cilantro dressing mixture. Sprinkle set aside ingredients over top.
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Serve immediately or chill up to 2 hours. Thin with a little water if desired; it thickens as it rests since the noodles absorb the liquid.
Nutrition
- Calories: 432.15kcal
- Fat: 20.39g
- Saturated Fat: 4.53g
- Trans Fat: 0.00g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 6.76g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 7.89g
- Carbohydrates: 51.76g
- Fiber: 9.88g
- Sugar: 7.79g
- Protein: 13.83g
- Cholesterol: 15.52mg
- Sodium: 814.27mg
- Calcium: 128.39mg
- Potassium: 874.53mg
- Iron: 2.50mg
- Vitamin A: 91.40µg
- Vitamin C: 28.97mg
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