Chicken pesto pasta salad
Chicken pesto pasta salad

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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.

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

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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.

First of all, we make a big batch of fresh everyday pesto to jar, share and save. Garden fresh pesto is one of our favorite condiments to make and savor throughout the year. 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.

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