Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken pesto pasta salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken pesto pasta salad is something which I have loved my whole life.
This chicken pesto pasta salad is quick, easy, and a great way to use up leftover chicken. The perfect make-ahead salad for summer entertaining. This basil pesto pasta salad was definitely a BIG hit at our house.
To begin 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken pesto pasta salad:
- Make ready 3 cup mixed salad leaves
- Take 1/2 a large cucumber
- Make ready 1 medium sliced onion
- Take 2 large chicken breasts
- Make ready 250 grams cooked pasta of your choice
- Make ready 1 salt, pepper, thyme, paprika/chilli powder, chicken spice or any spices of your choice to season the chicken
- Make ready 1 tsp lemon juice (optional)
- Take 1 tsp crushed garlic
- Get 1 bit of oil to toss pasta, and a few tbsp of butter to cook chicken
- Make ready 6 tbsp pesto
Chicken Pesto Pasta Salad. with Pine Nuts. Chicken Pesto Pasta Salad - Well-marinated ingredients make this salad taste best. Pesto chicken pasta salad is one of my summertime staples. This quick and easy salad recipe uses pasta, pesto, canned chicken, and vegetables.
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.
You can use your favorite vegetables in this simple salad. Add some chopped yellow summer squash or add some grated carrots. This recipe for chicken & red pesto pasta salad is a wonderful, flavorful dish that's easily prepared ahead for picnics or backyard barbecues. As soon as the warm weather hits, I start creating new versions to make for picnics, days at the beach and backyard barbecues. Summer pesto pasta salad with fresh basil pesto, spiral pasta, pine nuts, olives, peas, and cherry tomatoes.
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