This Caesar Pasta Salad with avocado is a must-try. It’s scrumptious and makes for an easy weeknight family meal. It combines veggies and grains and made perfect with creamy caesar dressing.
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Caesar Pasta Salad Recipe:
This salad has all the creamy goodness of a classic Caesar salad but is so much more exciting with the addition of pasta, avocado and tomatoes
This caesar pasta salad will fill you up and keep you feeling good! It’s also a great dish to take to a potluck, just keep the croutons separate until ready to serve.
Ingredients for Caesar Pasta Salad:
1 large or 2 medium heads of romaine lettuce
1/2 lb fusilli pasta, cooked al dente according to package instructions
1 medium avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
Grated parmesan cheese, to taste
Caesar Dressing (Marzetti is our favorite storebought brand) and Croutons.
Optional add-ins:
Sliced Grilled chicken, Shrimp
How to Make Caesar Pasta Salad:
1. Cook pasta according to package instructions then rinse in cold water and drain.
2. Rinse, chop and spin the romaine lettuce dry using a salad spinner (Amazon affiliate link). If you don’t have a salad spinner, pat dry with a clean towel.
Cook’s Tip: The dressing will coat the salad much better if the lettuce isn’t wet. Transfer lettuce to a large mixing bowl. Toss in the diced avocado and halved tomatoes.
3. Creamy Caesar Dressing to really boost the flavor of this salad. It’s so creamy and good! Toss to evenly coat the lettuce. Add the dressing to taste. Sprinkle with parmesan and croutons. Yum. Yum
If you prefer a homemade dressing, try our popular homemade creamy caesar.
If you love pasta salads, be sure to try this creamy avocado pasta salad (the dressing will surprise you!)
Caesar Pasta Salad with Avocado
Ingredients
For the Caesar Salad:
- 1 large romaine lettuce, (or 2 small heads)
- 1/2 lb fusilli pasta, cooked al dente according to package instructions
- 1 medium avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
- 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
- 1/4 cup Grated parmesan cheese, to taste
- 1/4 cup Caesar Dressing, or added to taste
- 1/2 cup Croutons
Optional add-ins:
- Sliced Grilled chicken or Shrimp
Instructions
- Cook pasta in salted water according to package instructions until al dente. Rinse in cold water and set aside to drain.
- Rinse, chop and spin the romaine lettuce dry using a salad spinner. If you don't have a salad spinner, pat dry with a clean towel. The dressing will coat the salad much better if the lettuce isn't wet. Transfer lettuce to a large mixing bowl. Toss in the pasta, diced avocado, and halved tomatoes.
- Add the Caesar Dressing to really boost the flavor of this salad. Toss to evenly coat the lettuce. Add the dressing to taste. Sprinkle with parmesan and croutons.
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I would serve it on the side of meals so everyone could have just the right amount on there food. I love the fresh taste of refrigerated dressing.So much better than off the shelf.
tweeted – https://twitter.com/rusthawk/status/586972397611323392
We love Marzetti blue cheese dressing on burgers and also use Ranch and Blue Cheese as dippers for fresh veggies, and poured over roasted veggies.
i love this site! would you be able to list the nutrition value of each meal? cals, carbs, protein, etc?
Where can I buy this dressing?
-We purchase it at Fred Meyer and Rosauers. It should be in most major grocery stores 😉 – Natasha
This salad looks good! I like their dressings!!
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https://twitter.com/vassriss09/status/586596926293835776
I would make a layered vegetable salad with the Ranch salad dressing
this salad looks so good and I’ve never seen this brand of dressing in the store. Next time i will look closer. I would like to make it with this exact salad. Looks so good.
This salad dressing looks like a delicious dip for veggies – mainly carrots and cucumbers which my kids love. Thank you:)
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I would use the Balsamic Salad Dressing on my Grilled Beef with Spinach and Strawberry Salad.
I love the idea of adding avocado to caesar salad, bet it makes it even more creamy. Gonna try this and add the optional chicken for sure.
going to try it
Love their blue cheese will love this also
This looks like an easy recipe to make when you have left over pasta. Thank You for the idea!
This recipe looks like a MUST try! In reading the comments, I will have to make a point to try the blue cheese dressing-that is one of my favs !
I would use it for dipping or add to my ranch bacon noodle casserole!
I would use the Marzetti Blue Cheese dressing in my in buffalo chicken dip, its super tasty 🙂
That my favorite brand of dressing! Close favorite between the creamy Caesar and creamy ranch. We love to use either on tomatoes and cucumbers or just as a dipping sauce for chicken.