taco pasta salad
2-4PP, 4SP blue, green & purple/per 1 cup serving *Note swap out the white pasta for whole wheat and it will be 2SP on purple
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 1 lb fat free ground turkey weighed raw
- 2.5 Tbsp taco seasoning
- 2 cups of cooked rotini style pasta I weighed pasta uncooked and picture below for my nutritional numbers, the 2 cups uncooked was 17SP
- 1 cup diced peppers I used green & yellow
- 1/2 cup diced red onion
- 1 cup grape tomatoes cut in half
- 2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce
- 1 cup reduced fat shredded cheese I used a 3 cheese blend
- 1/2 cup calorie wise catalina dressing or french dressing
- 1 tsp taco seasoning
- 4 taco shells crushed
Instructions
- Cook and drain the pasta if you’re not using pre-cooked pasta.
- Brown the ground turkey and stir in the 2.5 tablespoons of taco seasoning. Drain off any fat that’s in the pan and add the taco seasoned turkey to a bowl.
- Add the pasta, peppers, onion, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, 1 teaspoon of taco seasoning, and dressing to the ground turkey bowl and stir well. Once you are ready to serve, stir in the crushed taco shells.
- Store any leftover taco pasta salad in the fridge. Enjoy!
Notes
4 points per cup based on the WW app recipe creator.
If you’re using an older version of WW, check out these points below.
Personal Points- 2-4 depending on your 0PP foods
Freestyle smart points- (Blue & purple) 4 using WW recipe builder *swap out white pasta for whole wheat and recipe is 2SP on purple
Smart Points- (green) 4 using SP calculator
Point Plus- 4 using PP calculator
Nutrition
Serving: 1cup | Calories: 134kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1.57g | Sodium: 529mg | Fiber: 1.95g | Sugar: 2.13g