Chicken pesto pasta salad
Chicken pesto pasta salad

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken pesto pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chicken pesto pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Chicken pesto pasta salad is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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. Gradually whisk in oil until smooth.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken pesto pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken pesto pasta salad:
  1. Make ready 3 cup mixed salad leaves
  2. Take 1/2 a large cucumber
  3. Make ready 1 medium sliced onion
  4. Take 2 large chicken breasts
  5. Take 250 grams cooked pasta of your choice
  6. Get 1 salt, pepper, thyme, paprika/chilli powder, chicken spice or any spices of your choice to season the chicken
  7. Prepare 1 tsp lemon juice (optional)
  8. Take 1 tsp crushed garlic
  9. Make ready 1 bit of oil to toss pasta, and a few tbsp of butter to cook chicken
  10. Prepare 6 tbsp pesto

Add some chopped yellow summer squash or add some grated carrots. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute garlic until tender, then stir in chicken. Cook until chicken is golden, and cooked through.

Steps to make Chicken pesto pasta salad:
  1. Mix salad ingredients together in a large serving bowl
  2. Season chicken filets with spices, garlic and lemon juice. Grill in some butter until cooked.
  3. Toss cooked pasta with some oil, and then mix in about 6 tbsp of pesto.
  4. Slice cooked chicken in half lengthways, and then slice again into thin slices
  5. Mix chicken and pasta together
  6. 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.

Saute garlic until tender, then stir in chicken. Cook until chicken is golden, and cooked through. 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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