Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cajun chicken pasta salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cajun chicken pasta salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Cajun chicken pasta salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Make dressing, in a medium bowl, whisk mayonnaise with oil, lemon juice, cajun seasoning, and paprika. Make pasta salad, in a large pot of salted boiling water, cook. Sprinkle Cajun seasoning over the chicken breasts (just enough to lightly coat). Flip the breasts over and do the same on the other side.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cajun chicken pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cajun chicken pasta salad:
- Prepare Orecchiette pasta
- Make ready Cavatapi pasta
- Make ready 1/8 cup Paul Prudome poultry seasoning at least
- Take Italian dressing
- Make ready French dressing
- Get Bell peppers different colors cut into matchsticks and chunks
- Get Black olives
- Prepare Green onion
- Prepare Yellow onion
- Get 3 halves Chicken breast
- Take The best olive oil you can find
To put the salad together, add half the chicken and half the cooked peppers to a large bowl with the drained pasta. Pour in the dressing and toss together, so everything is evenly coated in the dressing. Then, over the top, add the remaining chicken, roasted peppers, charred corn and sliced avocado. Add chopped chicken, zip closed, and shake until chicken is coated.
Steps to make Cajun chicken pasta salad:
- Boil pasta al dente drain… set aside
- Put oil in skillet (this gets really smokey if you can do this outside do it)Cut chicken breasts into bite sized chunks coat with olive oil…and paul prudome poultry seasoning (coat it well) when the oil in the skillet is smoking (be careful fine line here between smoking and a fire) the coated chicken gets crispy in the high heat (blackened) cook through.
- Have chopped peppers onion olives chopped and ready
- When chicken is done add rest of veggies
- Stir for a minute or 2 then add french dressing and Italian dressing let it simmer for a few minutes.
- Cool off (tastes great warm too)
- Put cooled pasta salad in fridge overnight
- Flavors get better overnight!!!
- This can be adjusted to feed a few or alot of people…. use amounts that make sense to you (I know….for you people who measure everything this kinda sucks sorry)
Then, over the top, add the remaining chicken, roasted peppers, charred corn and sliced avocado. Add chopped chicken, zip closed, and shake until chicken is coated. Transfer chicken to heated pan and cook until chicken is browned and just cooked through. CAJUN PASTA SALAD IS EASY TO MAKE AT HOME You can easily prepare the pasta ahead of time, as well as the dressing. Right before serving, mix the dressing with the cooled cooked pasta (and a little more water, if needed), and you're good to go!
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