Tex-Mex Pasta Salad Recipe
All the flavor of Texas and Mexico in one exciting, flavorful pasta salad! This Tex-Mex pasta salad is a crowd pleaser. Topped with a homemade dressing and loaded with veggies, this recipe offers the whole package. Robust flavor, great pops of color, and a new exciting flavor in every bite.
Tex-Mex Pasta Salad
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Ingredients:
- 3 cups cooked penne pasta
- ½ red bell pepper, diced
- ½ green bell pepper, diced
- ½ yellow bell pepper, diced
- ½ red onion, diced
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- ½ cup cilantro, chopped
- 1 avocado, diced (optional garnish)
Dressing:
- ½ cup olive oil
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- Juice of one lime
Directions:
Cook pasta. While it is cooking, dice your veggies.
Combine peppers, onion, cilantro, and tomatoes in a large bowl.
Mix together all dressing ingredients, then pour over your pasta.
Mix thoroughly, then chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
Serve topped with avocado and/or your choice of toppings.
This is a perfect lunch or dinner for summer or great as a side dish to bring to your summer potlucks. It’s easy to make a big batch to feed a group and is perfect as leftovers.
Tex-Mex Pasta Salad Recipe
- 3 cups cooked penne pasta
- ½ red bell pepper, diced
- ½ green bell pepper, diced
- ½ yellow bell pepper, diced
- ½ red onion, diced
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- ½ cup cilantro, chopped
- ½ cup olive oil
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- Juice of one lime
- Cook pasta. While it is cooking, dice your veggies.
- Combine peppers, onion, cilantro, and tomatoes in a large bowl.
- Mix together all dressing ingredients, then pour over your pasta.
- Mix thoroughly, then chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
- Serve topped with avocado and/or your choice of toppings.
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This is PERFECT for a family cookout, or just a general family dinner during the summer. Looks good!
This looks like it will be a hit come BBQ season! Definitely saving to try for an upcoming event!
This recipe is so delicious! I’m not much of a fan of pasta salads, but since yours looked so good, I had to try. And with no surprise, it was an amazing experience. Thank you!
Hi Janice, So glad to hear you loved it! Thanks for sharing your feedback.
My wife keeps nagging me that I need to open up my repertoire of pasta salads (right now, Suddenly Salad is my go-to), so you have no idea how desperately I’ve needed this recipe!
I think I’m going to try this one, but without the avocado. The texture is too squishy for me!
Looks like the perfect salad to have when we grill out with friends or family. So colorful, reminds me of the garden.
Oh wow this looks so good – a gonna have to make soon!
thank you