This spicy pasta salad is filled with bold flavor and fresh ingredients. Combining pasta, black beans, corn, tomato and fresh avocado with a creamy spicy dressing this summer pasta salad is sure to become your favorite summer dish.
For this easy on the go recipe, I used the El Yucateco® Caribbean Habanero sauce with a perfect blend of yellow habanero peppers and fresh carrots, its slightly sweet flavor and mild heat make it perfect to make the dressing for this pasta salad adding lots of flavor and just the right amount of heat. But you can use any Habanero hot sauce.
Spicy Habanero Southwest Pasta Salad
Ingredients
- 1 8 ounce package pasta
- 1 15 ounce can of black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 cup sweet corn
- grape tomatoes quartered
- ¼ cup diced sweet peppers (green, yellow, orange, red)
- 1/4 cup fresh diced cilantro
Creamy Habanero Dressing
- 3/4 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons El Yucateco Habanero hot sauce (or your favorite habanero hot sauce)
- 1-2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, plus more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/8 teaspoon paprika
- 1/8 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- Freshly ground salt and pepper, to taste
Garnish
- Diced avocado
- Fresh cilantro
• Cook pasta according to directions on package. Transfer to a strainer and rinse with cool water then transfer to a large bowl.
• Add black beans, corn, tomatoes, sweet peppers and cilantro and gently stir to combine all of the ingredients.
• In a separate bowl combine the greek yogurt, lime juice, El Yucateco® Caribbean Sauce cumin, oregano, paprika, onion powder and garlic powder. Mix until well combined.
• Add dressing to pasta and stir well to combine and coat all of the pasta.
• Cover and refrigerate for an hour, then serve cold.
• Can be made up to one day ahead of time, just give it a stir before serving.
• Garnish with avocado, extra cilantro or green onions
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Oh yeah, that would be a hit around here. We always serve pasta salad when we cookout – which it pretty much all summer long 🙂
Very nice combinations here and so easy to carry and pack. Thanks for yoru yummy recipe and participation on this shop ~ client
This pasta salad rocks. I can’t wait to make it for some of the many cookouts we will be hosting this summer.
I am missing my favorite music festival this year, it sold out within like two days. My oldest likes spicy things so I’m sure he’d be up for trying this.
I love pasta salad and this one looks amazing! When I saw spicy, habanero and southwest, I knew this one was a winner and I have to try it soon. Yum!
Can’t go wrong with any pasta dish. Staple of summer BBQ and get togethers. Like the southwest flavors and I always have black beans available.
I have a few friends that I absolutely love hot food. I don’t think I’ve heard of this brand before but I do know that with my friends coming from memorial day and will have to go out look for it. I know they would like it.
Totally loving the look of this pasta salad. Good combinations and I can taste the flavour right now. 🙂
This pasta salad looks amazing! I love making pasta salad, so I can’t wait to try this recipe!!
There is nothing quite like seeing music live. The atmosphere just adds to the whole experience.
I love pasta salads in the summer becaise I don’t have to cook much and heat up the kitchen even more. I love the recipe and that hot sauce is the bomb.
Music festivals make summer more exciting. These are awesome tips! The pasta salad recipe is a keeper! I can’t wait to try it.
This pasta salad sounds really good. I love spicy food so this sounds right up my alley.
We love pasta salads in our house too. I think your recipe will be a hit. Pasta salad with a spicy twist would be an interesting one to try, and of course, the addition of avocados guarantee a really healthy yummy salad!
This pasta salad looks so flavorful. I cant wait to try this recipe and make this at home!
I also love music. When I was younger, I always go to concerts. Hey, thanks for sharing your recipe. I’ll give it a try too.
YUM! I love pasta salad, and I adore a spicy kick! This is definitely a recipe I need to try.
Oh yum! That pasta salad looks absolutely delicious I am going to recreate it.
I have only even been to on each concert but I enjoyed every minute of it and hope to do more in the future
These salads in the jars are an awesome idea. I will have to make this Spicy Habanero Southwest Pasta Salad recipe. My family loves spicy foods. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Yay, I’m an pasta fan – big one actually and I have never tried to prepare it this way. I guess I need to tell my wife asap to prepare one like this for a dinner tomorrow 🙂
Yum!! This would be the perfect lunch to pack for work, especially in that cute jar! And I love your photos, keep it up!
This looks like a nice. Looks like it would be great for snack time and portion control as well as lunch for work.
I made this with quinoa because one of our visitors has a gluten allergy. It was FABULOUS!
Sounds delicious! I will have to try it with quinoa!
This pasta salad looks amazing! I love making pasta salad, so I can’t wait to try this recipe!!