Mexican Style Pasta Salad

*Ollin*'s Note:

This salad is somehow popular in Mexico, and is very colorful, creamy and fresh.Everyone who has tasted it, loves it. It has a nice flavor and is great on warm days or for brunch or light dinner or as a side dish Some ingredients can be changed or removed for a vegetarian version.

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 250 g pasta (elbow or something similar)
• 150 g ham , in dices
• 6 -8 tablespoons corn (drained)
• 150 g feta cheese , cut in dices
• 100 g green olives , in slices (without pit)
• 1 medium green peppers or 1 medium red peppers or 1 medium yellow peppers or 1 medium orange bell pepper , cut in dices

Creamy dressing

• 1 cup mayonnaise (or half cup yogurt half cup mayonnaise)
• 1 tablespoon ketchup
• 3 tablespoons sour cream (optional)
• 1 -2 teaspoon maggi seasoning or 1 -2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 dash garlic powder
• 1 dash black pepper or 1 dash white pepper
• salt (only if needed)
• 2 tablespoons chopped chives (fresh or dried) (optional)

Directions:

1. Cook the pasta with a bit of salt and oil and when it's ready, drain it and cool it with water.
2. Mix the ingredients for the creamy dressing in a small bowl until it turns into a nice light pink mixture and add the chives.
3. In a bigger bowl mix all the ingredients and add spoons of pasta and dressing and mix carefully, until you have add all the pasta and the dressing.
4. Refrigerate covered before serving.
5. Enjoy! ^_^.

Reviews

[sugarpea]

Very good, Ollin. I can see why your pasta salad is famous. I want to caution others to observe the note about adding salt only if needed. The Maggi and feta add plenty as it is. You very probably won't need more.

[mariposa13]

I used black olives because I don't like green olives, and I added a can of pineapple chunks. Good!

[Peter J]

A really tasty salad Ollin. I used half mayonnaise and half youghurt along with barbecue sauce instead of ketchup which isn't so widely available in Australia. For the peppers I used a couple of miniature red and yellow capsicums to add some extra color.