Avocado And Orange Pasta Salad

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 6 ounces bow tie pasta
• 2 medium oranges
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon wine vinegar
• 1 medium avocado
• 1/2 ounce pine nuts, toasted
• salt, and freshly ground
• black pepper

Recipe

• 1 cook the pasta in plenty of lightly salted boiling water for 8 -1 0 minutes or until al dente. rinse well with cold water and drain thoroughly.
• 2 place in a salad bowl.
• 3 peel the oranges, carefully removing all the pith. segment the oranges over a bowl to catch the juices and add the segments to the pasta.
• 4 mix the oil and wine vinegar with the reserved orange juice and season with salt and pepper. carefully spoon the dressing.
• 5 into the pasta, stirring gently to coat. cover and refrigerate for 1 hour to allow the flavours to develop.
• 6 just before serving, peel, quarter and thickly slice the avocado and gently fold it into the pasta. sprinkle with the toasted pine kernels and serve immediately.
• 7 cook's note: sprinkle the sliced avocado with lemon juice to prevent it turning brown.
• 8 variations: replace the pine kernels with 2 tablespoons of bacon bits.