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Southwest Pasta Salad

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Southwest Pasta Salad combines macaroni noodles with beans and vegetables with a zesty and mildly spicy southwest flavor.

Southwest Pasta Salad

By Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

Southwest Pasta Salad is my recipe of the day with the blogging group Improv Cooking Challenge. We meet monthly on the second Thursday and put together a recipe using two ingredients and our best ideas.

And this month we are combining pasta and tomatoes, which isn’t that much of a challenge. But in its favor it is a very much loved combination.

I have combined macaroni with the flavors of tomatoes in salsa to give a little bit of a spicy take to a more ordinary macaroni salad.

I love adding tomatoes to macaroni salad and have been doing it for years on end. And besides adding flavor it also adds moisture so the salad doesn’t dry out as readily.

Also, you can serve this with many things, such as with sandwiches for a lunch. I am partial to serving this with chicken sandwiches myself but you can make yours as you like.

Improv Cooking Challenge: February 2021

Tomatoes & Pasta

Improv Cooking Challenge:February 2021

Tomatoes & Pasta

- Cameroon Chicken & Tomato Stew with CousCous from Pandemonium Noshery
- Cajun Chicken Fettuccine from Making Miracles
- Southwest Pasta Salad from Palatable Pastime (You are Here!)
- Baked Feta Tomato Fettuccine from Cookaholic Wife
- Pasta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes and Pepper Sauce by Magical Ingredients
- TicTok Feta Cheese and Tomato Pasta from Our Good Life
- Mediterranean Chicken and Orzo from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Indian Style Pink Sauce Pasta from Sneha’s Recipe

Southwest Pasta Salad

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Southwest Pasta Salad

Southwest Pasta Salad

Course Salad

Cuisine American, Southwest

Prep Time 25

Cook Time 10

chill time 1

Servings

Author Sue Lau

Ingredients

3 cups cooked macaroni
15.5 ounce can red kidney beans rinsed and drained
2 ounce jar diced pimientos drained
1 cup fire roasted corn kernels
1 cup diced zucchini
2 scallions chopped
1/2 cup mild salsa
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon minced fresh cilantro

Instructions

Stir together ingredients for pasta salad and chill for one hour before serving.

Notes

From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com

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