Avocado BLT Pasta Salad Lite

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

I made this yesterday as a side for Father's Day and it was delicious!

From Emily Bites. points and calories below.

http://www.emilybites.com/2017/06/avocado-blt-pasta-salad.html

Avocado BLT Pasta Salad

Yield: 8 (1 cup) servings

Ingredients:

8 oz uncooked pasta (I used cavatappi)
8 slices center cut bacon
6 oz of avocado, mashed (for me 6 ounces was the weight of one avocado after removing the skin and pit)
1 ½ teaspoons lemon juice
¼ cup low fat mayonnaise (I used Hellmann’s)
1 ½ teaspoons apple cider vinegar
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
1 cup chopped cherry tomatoes (I sliced mine into quarters)
2 cups shredded or thinly sliced romaine or green leaf lettuce

Directions:

Cook the pasta according to package directions and drain. Rinse the pasta in a colander under cold water until the pasta is cooled and drain. Transfer the pasta to a large mixing bowl.
Cook the bacon according to package directions and drain and cool on paper towels. Slice or crumble the bacon into small pieces.
In a mixing bowl, combine the mashed avocado and the lemon juice and stir until thoroughly combined. Add the mayonnaise, vinegar, salt and garlic powder and stir until well combined and creamy. Add this avocado dressing to the pasta in your large mixing bowl and then stir until the pasta is coated.
Add the crumbled bacon, chopped tomatoes and shredded lettuce to the coated pasta and toss to combine. Serve chilled or at room temperature.

Weight Watchers SmartPoints:
5 per (1 cup) serving (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

Weight Watchers Points Plus:
5 per (1 cup) serving (PP calculated using a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the nutrition information below)

Nutrition Information per (1 cup) serving:
175 calories, 25 g carbs, 2 g sugars, 6 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 6 g protein, 3 g fiber (from myfitnesspal.com)

an Emily Bites Original

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

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ReggieRagu · ‎03-17-2013

@Noel7

This looks delicious. What a bonus that you added the Smart Points!

I am currently on program ( lifetime member currently not at goal 😩) I have lost 33 lbs since September. I have about 20 more to go. It is much slower than my original journey...but I am 18 years older and it is certainly not a race.

Anyway, sorry to go on. I really just wanted to thank you.

Reggie

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@ReggieRagu wrote:
@Noel7
This looks delicious. What a bonus that you added the Smart Points!
I am currently on program ( lifetime member currently not at goal 😩) I have lost 33 lbs since September. I have about 20 more to go. It is much slower than my original journey...but I am 18 years older and it is certainly not a race.
Anyway, sorry to go on. I really just wanted to thank you.
Reggie

Hi @ReggieRagu

You're welcome! I love collecting lite recipes, DH is diabetic, and I gain weight easily so I use them often. I just got over a really nasty virus, had it for two months, so did my daughter, and I just sat around and coughed, not moving much, so I want to knock off a few pounds, also.

I know what you mean, losing isn't as easy as it was years ago, LOL.

GOOD LUCK TO YOU!

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

ps @ReggieRagu

The Emily Bites site includes a lot of really good lite recipes, you might want to check it out, the link is in the opening post.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

Perfect hot weather fare. Good bacon flavor for not a lot of calories. Thanks @Noel7.

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IamMrsG · ‎08-29-2010

This looks good, @Noel7. One tip I can offer: If it is going to be refrigerated, omit the tomatoes until just before serving time. Refrigeration destroys tomato flavors.

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Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@IamMrsG wrote:
This looks good, @Noel7. One tip I can offer: If it is going to be refrigerated, omit the tomatoes until just before serving time. Refrigeration destroys tomato flavors.

Thanks for the tip @IamMrsG I also added the lettuce bites to each serving at the last minute, yesterday and today.

I might cut the recipe down a bit because I'd forgotten that a pasta salad with mayo usually absorbs a lot of it by the next day. My mother used to add additional mayo the following day. I don't want to do that because of calories.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:
Perfect hot weather fare. Good bacon flavor for not a lot of calories. Thanks @Noel7.

Hi @Kachina624

I am dragging out my collection of hot weather recipes, we're at the beginning of a heatwave. It got to 88 in SF yesterday, not at all common for June. It's supposed to hit the Bay Area hard this coming Thursday.