Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chicken pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Let Our Collection Of Easy & Simple Recipes Guide You In The Kitchen. Browse Now This chicken pesto pasta salad is quick, easy, and a great way to use up leftover chicken. The perfect make-ahead salad for summer BBQs, potlucks, or easy entertaining. To make this pesto pasta salad really simple, I used rotisserie chicken.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken pesto pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken pesto pasta salad:
- Prepare 3 cup mixed salad leaves
- Get 1/2 a large cucumber
- Make ready 1 medium sliced onion
- Get 2 large chicken breasts
- Make ready 250 grams cooked pasta of your choice
- Prepare 1 salt, pepper, thyme, paprika/chilli powder, chicken spice or any spices of your choice to season the chicken
- Prepare 1 tsp lemon juice (optional)
- Prepare 1 tsp crushed garlic
- Make ready 1 bit of oil to toss pasta, and a few tbsp of butter to cook chicken
- Prepare 6 tbsp pesto
You can use your favorite vegetables in this simple salad. Add some chopped yellow summer squash or add some grated carrots. Easy and delicious bowtie pasta with chicken, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto sauce. Using homemade pesto will taste even better, but it adds to prep time.
Instructions to make Chicken pesto pasta salad:
- Mix salad ingredients together in a large serving bowl
- Season chicken filets with spices, garlic and lemon juice. Grill in some butter until cooked.
- Toss cooked pasta with some oil, and then mix in about 6 tbsp of pesto.
- Slice cooked chicken in half lengthways, and then slice again into thin slices
- Mix chicken and pasta together
- Lastly, mix together chicken and pasta, together with salad. You can add extra seasonings, salad oil, dressings, feta, olives or any garnishing of your choice. Serve warm or cold.
Easy and delicious bowtie pasta with chicken, sun-dried tomatoes and pesto sauce. Using homemade pesto will taste even better, but it adds to prep time. Drain the pasta well in the colander. Add in chopped tomatoes and cooked cubed chicken; toss to coat. For the dressing; in a processor puree the prepared pesto with the spinach and lemon juice.
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