BLT Pasta Salad Recipe
If you’re a fan of BLT sandwiches, you will love this BLT pasta salad recipe, it’s cool and creamy and makes a terrific side dish for summer parties. If you are on a gluten-free diet you could use brown rice pasta instead.
Lower Calorie BLT Pasta Salad
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 8 oz. corkscrew pasta or any short pasta (or brown rice pasta for gf)
- 4 slices bacon
- 4 tbsp reduced fat mayonnaise
- 2 large ripe tomatoes, diced small or 1/4 cup canned tomatoes, drained
- 1/4 cup chopped spring onions
- salt and freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 cups finely-chopped lettuce or 2 cups baby spinach
Method
Method
- Cook the pasta in boiling water according to the package directions. Drain.
- Fry the bacon until crisp. Drain.
- Place the mayonnaise in a small bowl and add the tomatoes and the chopped spring onions.
- Add some salt and pepper, and stir well.
- Put the pasta in a large bowl.
- Add the spinach or lettuce, crumble in the bacon and then add the dressing. Mix it all together.
- Refrigerate the pasta salad before serving.
Tip
Centre cut bacon has less fat than regular bacon, or you can use turkey or chicken bacon instead if you don’t eat pork.
Serves 7 – Serving Size: 1 cup – Nutrition Per Serving
Calories: 149, Fat: 4g, Carbohydrate: 27g, Fibre: 4g, Protein: 5g