Avocado Pasta Salad |Video+Recipe| Pasta Salad with Avocado
Serving: 6 servings
Ingredients
- ½ pound short pasta of your choice
- 2 teaspoon salt (or more, to taste)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil (optional).
- ½ cup green beans blanched and cut into small pieces
- ½ cup peas blanched
- 1 carrot peeled, boiled and cut into small cubes
- ¼ cup sweet corn boiled
- 1 ripe avocado (large)
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 tablespoon cilantro chopped (optional)
- ¼ teaspoon pepper (freshly-cracked, or ground)
Instructions
Boiling pasta
- Cook the pasta in salted water following the instructions in the package.Drain water and place pasta in a large mixing bowl.
Combining ingredients
- Combine pasta with green beans, peas, carrot and corn to the pasta. Chill for an hour.Peel the avocado and cut into cubes. Mix with the pasta.
Seasoning
- Stir in the lime juice. Season with salt and pepper to taste.Stir in cilantro.
Serving
- This is best serve immediately and at room temperature.If you want to store it, leave the avocado out (you can season it beforehand) and add the avocado right before serving.
Cook's notes
To make pasta salad with avocado and chicken
Shred a roasted chicken breast (supermarket rotisserie works great) and add it to the mix.How to make pasta salad with avocado and tuna
Open a can of tuna in water and drain the water, crumble the tuna and mix with the salad.Nutrition
Calories: 189kcal
