Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, buffalo chicken pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Stir together the mayonnaise, blue cheese dressing, buffalo wing sauce, salt and pepper in a large bowl. Add the chicken, bell peppers, red onion, and cooked pasta and toss to coat with the dressing. Stir until smooth, then add to the bowl with the. In a small bowl, whisk the hot sauce, oil, lemon juice, onion and garlic powders and celery salt.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook buffalo chicken pasta salad using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
  1. Make ready 8 Oz. boneless chicken meat, 1/2" dice (up to 8 ounces extra would work without changing the marinade and cornstarch mixture
  2. Get Marinade
  3. Take 3 ounces buttermilk
  4. Make ready 3 ounces crystal hot sauce
  5. Take 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  6. Get 1 ounce lemon juice
  7. Make ready Corn starch mixture
  8. Make ready 1 cup corn starch
  9. Get 1 tablespoon salt
  10. Prepare 1 tablespoon white pepper or black is fine
  11. Take 1 teaspoon cayenne
  12. Get 2 cups oil- vegetable oil is fine
  13. Make ready 3 ounces crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters)
  14. Get 3 ounces mayonnaise
  15. Prepare 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
  16. Get 8 ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions
  17. Take 1/2 small red bell pepper or red onion, diced
  18. Take 1 green onion chopped
  19. Make ready 1 stalk celery 1 inch julienne cut
  20. Prepare 2 tablespoon parsley,finely chopped

Add chicken breast and red pepper and stir to combine. In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together buffalo sauce, ranch dressing, mayonnaise, garlic powder, and black pepper to make a sauce. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is the perfect thing to bring to BBQs this summer! There's just the right amount of heat in this tasty cold pasta dish.

Instructions to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
  2. Mix the buttermilk, hot sauce, brown sugar and lemon juice together until the brown sugar is dissolve then add the diced chicken with the mixture in a zip-lock bag. Marinate chicken for several hours or overnight.
  3. (In class we marinate for 45 minutes the longer the better)
  4. Remove chicken from marinade - drain well
  5. Mix the cornstarch,salt,white pepper and cayenne. Dredge chicken with seasoned cornstarch mixture and shake off the excess coating.
  6. In a deep skillet, heat about two cups of oil(depending on the pan size) over medium-high heat until hot. Test the temperature by dropping a pinch of flour into the hot oil. If it bubbles right away without smoking, it's ready.
  7. Fry at 350 F. until golden brown and cooked through. (I check the biggest piece) let cool before adding to the salad.
  8. Mix all pasta with the chicken, blue cheese, mayonnaise, hot sauce, red bell pepper or red onion, celery,green onion and parsley.
  9. You can garnish with extra blue cheese crumbles, and chopped parsley.
  10. Note #1.. Hot sauces very greatly Crystal Hot Sauce and Franks Hot Sauce work well… they are a sweet heat. Tabasco will ruin this recipe. It is just to hot…Great on Oysters not on this Recipe:)
  11. Note #2 If you do not want to fry, you can buy popcorn chicken at a grocery store or, KFC, or Popeyes and skip steps 1,2,3,4,5 :p

Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is the perfect thing to bring to BBQs this summer! There's just the right amount of heat in this tasty cold pasta dish. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad has become a favorite pasta salad recipe for me because it features one of my favorite flavors: Buffalo Sauce. I remember the first time I tried it. Cook pasta per package instructions, rinse with cold water.

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