Mexican Pasta Salad

Creamy Mexican pasta salad with corn, black beans, avocado, and a Southwestern yogurt dressing. Easy, healthy, and always a favorite!

⏱ 30 min 🔨 Prep 15min 🔥 Cook 10min 📊 Medium 🍽 8 servings ⭐ 4.7 (50) 👁 7
Mexican Pasta Salad

Ingredients

8 servings

Instructions

  1. Cook the pasta to al dente according to package instructions. Rinse with cool water, drain, and place in a large serving bowl. Add the corn, black beans, cherry tomatoes, avocados, green onions, jalapeno, and cilantro.
  2. To make the dressing, in a small bowl or large measuring cup, stir together the Greek yogurt, olive oil, lime zest and juice, hot sauce, salt, chili powder, and smoked paprika. Taste and add additional salt or spices as desired.
  3. Pour over the pasta mixture. Toss to coat, then sprinkle the feta over the top. If time allows, chill for 2 hours prior to serving or enjoy immediately.
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Nutrition per serving

Protein12g
Carbs40g
Fat13g
309kcal
12gProtein
40gCarbs
13gFat

💰 Cost Estimate

Total Ingredients
$3555.00
Per Serving
$444.00/serving
🏠 Savings
~$7110.00 vs buying!
📋 Price Breakdown (88% ingredients detected)
IngredientAmountSubtotal
whole wheat pasta 8 oz $315.00
corn 2 cup $187.00
1 -
halved cherry tomatoes 2 cups $29.00
avocados 2 large $149.00
green onions 3 whole $164.00
jalapeno 1 large $107.00
chopped cilantro 0.3333333333333333 cup $156.00
crumbled feta cheese 0.5 cup $156.00
nonfat plain Greek yogurt 0.75 cup $168.00
extra-virgin olive oil 2 tbsp $42.00
Zest of 2 limes 2 l $2060.00
Tabasco 1 tsp -
kosher salt 0.5 tsp $1.00
chili powder 0.5 tsp $9.00
smoked paprika 0.25 tsp $12.00

*Estimated market prices, may vary by region

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Mexican Pasta Salad

Ingredients:
  • 8 oz whole wheat pasta (bow tie, elbow, or similar)
  • 2 cup corn (cut from the cob, or frozen and thawed (regular or fire roastd), or 1 (15-ouce) can, and drained)
  • 1 (15-ounce) can reduced sodium black beans (drained and rinsed)
  • 2 cups halved cherry tomatoes
  • 2 large avocados (peeled, pitted, and diced)
  • 3 whole green onions (thinly sliced)
  • 1 large jalapeno (cored, seeded, and diced)
  • 1/3 cup chopped cilantro
  • 1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
  • 3/4 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt
  • 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • Zest of 2 limes (plus 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice)
  • 1 tsp Tabasco (or similar hot sauce)
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp chili powder
  • 1/4 tsp smoked paprika

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