Confessions of a Mother Runner

Healthy Living, Running & Vegetarian

You are here: Home / Recipes / Appetizers/Snacks / Southwestern Pasta Salad w Cilantro Lime Vinegarette

Appetizers/Snacks Healthy living Main Dishes-Vegetarian Meatless Monday Recipes Salads

Southwestern Pasta Salad w Cilantro Lime Vinegarette

Happy Meatless Monday! It’s finally gotten very warm around here which means I am all about salads these days. I whipped up this easy Southwestern Pasta Salad with a Cilantro Lime Vinegarette. It’s very easy to make for a summer BBQ or make ahead lunches for the week. Please join Tina and I for this week’s linkup.

Meatless Monday Linkup

Pasta Salad|vegetarian|meatless Monday| vegan|protein

Southwestern Pasta Salad w Cilantro Lime Vinegarette
Recipe Type: lunch or dinner side
Author: Confessions of A Mother Runner
Prep time:
Cook time:
Total time:
A great lunch or BBQ dinner side full of healthy veggies.
Ingredients
  • 15 oz box of penne or pasta of your choice cooked according to package
  • Rinse and cooled
  • Corn from 2 ears of corn on the cob (approx 1 Cup)
  • 1 C of edamame
  • 1 15 oz can of black beans drained
  • 2 Cups of grape or cherry tomatoes sliced in half
  • 1 avocado-cut into chunks
  • For Dressing:
  • juice from 4 limes (about 1/4 cup)
  • 1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp Kosher salt
  • 3/4 Cup olive oil
  • 1/2 Cup fresh cilantro
  • 1 jalapeno pepper-quartered
  • pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Place cooked pasta into large mixing bowl
  2. Add in black beans, edamame, corn, tomatoes & avocado
  3. Prepare dressing:
  4. In a food processor: pulse jalapeno and cilantro
  5. Add in lime juice, vinegar, salt, olive oil & pepper and combine
  6. Drizzle onto pasta salad and chill

Perfect #PastaSalad for #MemorialDay #BBQ #MeatlessMonday join us!

Click To Tweet

 This Southwestern Pasta is an easy to make yet very filling veggie filled protein salad. The cilantro lime vinegarette adds a little zing, is so versatile and can be used on any salad or grilled veggies. I am bringing this to my Memorial Day BBQ for sure. How about you? Any plans for Memorial Day? What are you bringing to your next BBQ?



About Deborah Brooks

Hi I'm Deborah! I spend my days successfully raising a husband & 2 teens in the VA/DC area. I am a lover of all things running & fitness. As a life long vegetarian, I've always been passionate about healthy living & exercise. Looking for partners in crime, I started my own chapter of Moms Run This Town (MRTT) which has grown to over 700 members. I've met so many amazing women who inspire me daily to keep moving forward. You can usually find me running with my crew and training for the next crazy adventure they talked me into. I love to keep up to date on new running & fitness trends. I definitely choose my running gear based on color and love to express my fashion sense while exercising.

Oh hello, join the newsletter

Get the latest recipes right to your inbox:

Your email is safe with me.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Natalie says

    This looks so delicious!! I love edamame and I haven’t had it in a while. Love all the veggies and the dressing sounds yummy with the lime juice and jalapeno!
    Perfect for summer! Can you believe it is already Memorial Day?!

  3. Kelli says

    That looks very awesome! I’ve made something similar with quinoa, although never thought to try edamame in a southwestern dish. I may have to try this for my 4th of July party (I’m out of town – actually “in town” on Memorial Day – to watch my son Stephen compete at the Scripps National spelling bee)

  5. Tina Muir says

    ooooh I love the combo Deborah! This is great for a cookout too! I always forget about pasta salad! Good choice!

  10. Meghan says

    So I love everything about this salad but I am most excited to try out that dressing!! Holy cow, that sounds fabulous. I was just telling Tina that I would probably add more heat to her buffalo chickpea wraps (which also look amazing), but I think the jalapeños here would be enough for me!

  11. Jess @hellotofit says

    I LOVE that the base for this pasta salad is a vinaigrette, not mayo. That’s not to say I don’t like mayonnaise (hehe), but it’s refreshing to have something lighter. AND there’s avocado!! Yum.

  15. Sarah says

    Girl you know me too well, what time should I be over for dinner?!? I make a dish very similar to this but with quinoa and the girls haven’t been huge fans of it lately, the quinoa. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of pasta it would have been great when hubby needed to up his carbs and I bet the whole family would have loved this.

  16. Jenn says

    Yum. Cilantro isn’t my favorite, but mixed with all those things, I think I could do it. Thanks for sharing!

  20. Sadhna Grover says

    Hi Deborah,
    This salad looks tempting and nice.
    I am celebrating my First Blog Anniversary-http://herbsspicesandtradition.blogspot.ca/2015/05/my-first-blog-anniversary-event.html
    There is a event and a give away. Please join, it is open for everybody.

  25. Marcia says

    Oh wow this looks so delicious! I love the idea of the Southwestern flavors. If I wasn’t going to be out of town this weekend I’d be making it fo sho!

  27. MCM Mama Runs says

    Ooh, that vinaigrette sounds amazing. I need to make some new salad dressing and I think I may try that and use up the cilantro that’s hanging out in my fridge…

  29. Mary Beth Jackson says

    Looks like a great summer dish to me! perfect to add a little leftover grilled chicken to for a little protein punch and then throw in my lunchbox! Cheers to a long weekend!

  35. Mary Long says

    I am going to make this for your picnic this weekend. Mom is making fajitas ( reason I need the chipoltle slaw ). This will go great with everything!

  36. Akaleistar says

    I am slowly learning to appreciate salads, and this pasta salad looks like a yummy way to eat salad without feeling like a rabbit 🙂

Trackbacks

Footer

You might also like

Privacy Policy