Creamy Bacon Avocado Pasta Salad
A creamy and delicious pasta salad filled with delicious bacon, tomatoes, and avocado.
Servings 8 -12 servings
Ingredients
- 16 ounces tri-color spiral pasta
- 1 ¼ cup mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons garlic salt
- ½ teaspoon white pepper can use red or black pepper
- 2 teaspoon dry dill
- 1-2 lemons juiced
- 2 cups halved cherry tomatoes
- ½ cups sliced black olives optional
- 2-3 avocados pitted and cut into 1" pieces
- 12 slices bacon cooked, drained and cut into 1" pieces
Instructions
- Boil the pasta as directed on the package. Drain and then rinse with cold water to cool the pasta.
- In a small bowl, mix the mayonnaise, garlic salt, white (or red or black) pepper, the dill and the juice from the 1-2 lemons. Remember to save a few tablespoons of the lemon juice for the avocado. (keeps it from browning).
- In a small bowl, toss the avocado in a few tablespoons of lemon juice. (Usually what I do is squeeze ALL the lemon juice into the avocado bowl, toss well and then the remainder gets poured into the mayo mixture).
- Pour the drained and cool pasta into a large serving bowl. Add the tomatoes, sliced bacon, black olives and the avocado. Gently stir in the mayo mixture.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 45 minutes.
- Serve cold. Delicious with burgers, sandwiches, steaks – whatever!