Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken pesto pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Easy and delicious pasta with chicken. Serve with crusty bread and salad for a quick dinner. Use as much or as little pesto sauce as you like.
Chicken pesto pasta salad is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chicken pesto pasta salad is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must 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:
- Get 3 cup mixed salad leaves
- Get 1/2 a large cucumber
- Prepare 1 medium sliced onion
- Prepare 2 large chicken breasts
- Make ready 250 grams cooked pasta of your choice
- Get 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)
- Get 1 tsp crushed garlic
- Make ready 1 bit of oil to toss pasta, and a few tbsp of butter to cook chicken
- Make ready 6 tbsp pesto
This makes a large batch, and my husband ate ALL OF IT over a few days. This chicken pesto pasta salad is light, healthy and packed with the perfect pesto flavor! Great for BBQs, brunches, baby showers & more! The combination of flavors in this pesto chicken salad is seriously to-die-for!
Steps 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.
It's so easy to throw together and can be eaten as both a main or side dish. Pesto chicken pasta salad is one of my summertime staples. This quick and easy salad recipe uses pasta, pesto, canned chicken, and vegetables. You can use your favorite vegetables in this simple salad. Add some chopped yellow summer squash or add some grated carrots.
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