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Asian Pasta Salad

VegetarianAsianDiner-Style

Time: 25 minutes

Yield: 4 servings

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About

There isn't a pasta salad out there that can match the refreshment or the brightness of Asian Pasta Salad. The dressing alone is a showstopper, a savory and sweet soy sauce mixture with notes of butter and nuttiness from the sesame. But what it covers goes well beyond what you'd expect to find in a pasta salad: sweet and juicy mangoes, creamy avocados, crunchy red cabbage, and sharp green onions. Elbow macaroni ties everything together into a flavor parcel you can't wait to unwrap. Asian Pasta Salad shows that a little fusion in your cooking can really up the fun!

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Ingredients

  • For the dressing:
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons sesame oil
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar, plus more to taste
  • 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds
  • For the salad:
  • 8 ounces elbow pasta
  • 1 California avocado, halved, seeded, peeled, and diced
  • 1 mango, peeled and diced
  • 1 carrot, peeled and grated
  • 1/4 cup red cabbage, shredded
  • 1 green onion, thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons pine nuts
  • kosher salt, to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Directions

Step 1 -Whisk together the soy sauce, the sesame oil, the sugar, and the sesame seeds.

Step 2 -In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the pasta to al dente according to the package directions.

Step 3 -Drain the pasta well and allow it to cool slightly.

Step 4 -In a large bowl, combine the pasta, the avocado, the mango, the carrot, the cabbage, the green onion, the pine nuts, the soy sauce dressing, the salt, and the pepper together.

Step 5 -Serve immediately.

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