Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, buffalo chicken pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really 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. In a small bowl, whisk the hot sauce, oil, lemon juice, onion and garlic powders and celery salt. Drain pasta and rinse in cold water.

Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have buffalo chicken pasta salad using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

There's just the right amount of heat in this tasty cold pasta dish. Cook pasta per package instructions, rinse with cold water. Add all of these to a large mixing bowl along with the container of blue cheese crumbles. A favorite of my son's, easy to make and a great new way to enjoy the flavor of Buffalo Wings..

Steps 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

Add all of these to a large mixing bowl along with the container of blue cheese crumbles. A favorite of my son's, easy to make and a great new way to enjoy the flavor of Buffalo Wings.. Mix ranch drssing and buffalo sauce. Combine chicken, pasta, celery, bleu cheese crumbles and dressing mix. Meanwhile, whisk together hot sauce, oil, lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder, and celery salt in small bowl until well combined.

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