When summer arrives, they arrive… pasta salads! Light, refreshing and creative, they provide a culinary oasis for everyone. Wonderful both as a main dish, as a side dish or as an appetizer for the central dish, they provide balance to the daily diet.
The pasta salad gives a plus to the concept of salad, both in terms of nutrients and benefits and… Flavor! Even psychologically, seeing vegetables and greens accompanied by pasta makes them more palatable. Especially for those people reluctant to “green”.
Well, we know that you are looking for attractive and healthy alternatives when eating and precisely for this reason, today we offer you to try a delicious pasta salad with avocado and cheese.
This recipe is sure to be a hit. Pasta, with its neutral flavor, capable of accompanying almost any ingredient. An exotic fruit such as avocado, to provide freshness. To finish, all seasoned to taste and with the elegant touch of dried fruit. Additional pieces of cheese. A nutritious treat!
Ingredients to make Pasta Salad with Avocado and Cheese:
- 200 grams of short pasta
- 1 avocado
- 1 handful of basil, chopped (fresh or dried)
- 200 grams of grated white cheese
- 3 tablespoons of virgin or extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of rosemary vinegar
- 1 pinch of salt
- Chopped walnuts or peanuts
How to make Avocado Cheese Pasta Salad:
Cook the pasta in a saucepan with boiling water that covers up to two fingers above. Check the manufacturer’s instructions and check so that the pasta is “al dente”, that is, neither too soft nor too hard, but just right. Pass the pasta through a strainer, drain the water very well and reserve.
Almost everything ready to go with our recipe! Place all the ingredients on the table to assemble the preparation of the pasta salad.
Remember to measure each ingredient, according to the proportions suggested by the recipe. Crush the nuts or peanuts, in my case peanuts. You can crush with mortar or with any electric kitchen helper you have.
Chop the parsley in small pieces, if it is fresh. It is also valid to use dried parsley. Let’s go to the mess!
Next we are going to chop the avocado. Why don’t we chop the avocado beforehand? Because it is preferable at the moment, because this fruit darkens very easily. You can place the avocado in a bowl and season with salt, in my case I keep it natural.
