Creamy Avocado Pasta Salad
This Avocado Pasta Salad recipe is a healthy salad that is ideal food. It's a rich creamy avocado sauce with corn and tomatoes. So delicious and really simple to make!
Ingredients
- 1 ripe avocado peeled stone and chopped
- 12 oz rotini pasta or other short cut pasta
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
- fresh basil for serving
- 1 cup frozen corn thawed
For the Dressing
- ½ cup almond milk
- 2 ripe avocados peeled and cored
- 1 garlic clove
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 cup baby spinach
- 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- In a large-pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta according to package directions but reduce cooking time by two minutes pasta is al dente, drain well.
- You are able to thaw the frozen corn from the pasta cooking water in the past 3-4 minutes of cooking time.
- To make the avocado dressing, combine the avocados, spinach, almond milk, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic into a blender or food-processor. Season with pepper and salt.
- With the motor running, then add olive oil gradually till dressing is emulsified, creamy and smooth.
- In a large-bowl, toss the pasta with the dressing, tomatoes, avocados and corn.
- Garnish with fresh basil and serve immediately.