Cajun chicken pasta salad. You can easily prepare the pasta ahead of time, as well as the dressing. Right before serving, mix the dressing with the cooled cooked pasta (and a little more water, if needed), and you're good to go! Made with chicken breast, pasta, and plenty of fresh, colorful veggies with Cajun Seasoning is an easy meal!
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You can cook Cajun chicken pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Cajun chicken pasta salad
- You need of Orecchiette pasta.
- It's of Cavatapi pasta.
- Prepare 1/8 cup of Paul Prudome poultry seasoning at least.
- It's of Italian dressing.
- Prepare of French dressing.
- You need of Bell peppers different colors cut into matchsticks and chunks.
- You need of Black olives.
- It's of Green onion.
- You need of Yellow onion.
- You need 3 halves of Chicken breast.
- You need of The best olive oil you can find.
When done, shock in ice water to stop the cooking. Remove ends from onion, peel, cut in half, then julienne. Make dressing, in a medium bowl, whisk mayonnaise with oil, lemon juice, cajun seasoning, and paprika. Make pasta salad, in a large pot of salted boiling water, cook.
Cajun chicken pasta salad step by step
- Boil pasta al dente drain... set aside.
- Put oil in skillet (this gets really smokey if you can do this outside do it)Cut chicken breasts into bite sized chunks coat with olive oil...and paul prudome poultry seasoning (coat it well) when the oil in the skillet is smoking (be careful fine line here between smoking and a fire) the coated chicken gets crispy in the high heat (blackened) cook through..
- Have chopped peppers onion olives chopped and ready.
- When chicken is done add rest of veggies.
- Stir for a minute or 2 then add french dressing and Italian dressing let it simmer for a few minutes..
- Cool off (tastes great warm too).
- Put cooled pasta salad in fridge overnight.
- Flavors get better overnight!!!.
- This can be adjusted to feed a few or alot of people.... use amounts that make sense to you (I know....for you people who measure everything this kinda sucks sorry).
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