Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chicken pesto pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. This makes a large batch, and my husband ate ALL OF IT over a few days.
Chicken pesto pasta salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken pesto pasta salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken pesto pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken pesto pasta salad:
- Take mixed salad leaves
- Get a large cucumber
- Make ready medium sliced onion
- Prepare chicken breasts
- Get cooked pasta of your choice
- Get salt, pepper, thyme, paprika/chilli powder, chicken spice or any spices of your choice to season the chicken
- Make ready tsp lemon juice (optional)
- Take crushed garlic
- Make ready bit of oil to toss pasta, and a few tbsp of butter to cook chicken
- Prepare pesto
Speaking of year-round, this Pesto Pasta Salad is a great recipe no matter what time of the year it is. We serve it cold as a great summer salad and hot as a delicious winter dinner. The final piece of this Chicken and Berry Pesto Pasta Salad is baby spinach. It's a great way to get some greens and extra nutrition into the dish, plus it adds another nice pop of color.
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.
The final piece of this Chicken and Berry Pesto Pasta Salad is baby spinach. It's a great way to get some greens and extra nutrition into the dish, plus it adds another nice pop of color. This salad is best made the day you plan to serve it so that the berries and spinach stay fresh and crisp. Pesto Pasta SaladSwirls of Flavor. pasta, grape, pesto, small tomatoes, bocconcini, shredded Parmesan. Strawberry Avocado Pesto Pasta SaladFit Mitten Kitchen.
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