Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, buffalo chicken pasta salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook buffalo chicken pasta salad using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
  1. Prepare 8 Oz. boneless chicken meat, 1/2" dice (up to 8 ounces extra would work without changing the marinade and cornstarch mixture
  2. Get Marinade
  3. Prepare 3 ounces buttermilk
  4. Make ready 3 ounces crystal hot sauce
  5. Prepare 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  6. Prepare 1 ounce lemon juice
  7. Make ready Corn starch mixture
  8. Make ready 1 cup corn starch
  9. Take 1 tablespoon salt
  10. Get 1 tablespoon white pepper or black is fine
  11. Take 1 teaspoon cayenne
  12. Get 2 cups oil- vegetable oil is fine
  13. Prepare 3 ounces crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters)
  14. Get 3 ounces mayonnaise
  15. Take 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
  16. Prepare 8 ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions
  17. Make ready 1/2 small red bell pepper or red onion, diced
  18. Make ready 1 green onion chopped
  19. Make ready 1 stalk celery 1 inch julienne cut
  20. Get 2 tablespoon parsley,finely chopped
Instructions to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
  2. Mix the buttermilk, hot sauce, brown sugar and lemon juice together until the brown sugar is dissolve then add the diced chicken with the mixture in a zip-lock bag. Marinate chicken for several hours or overnight.
  3. (In class we marinate for 45 minutes the longer the better)
  4. Remove chicken from marinade - drain well
  5. Mix the cornstarch,salt,white pepper and cayenne. Dredge chicken with seasoned cornstarch mixture and shake off the excess coating.
  6. In a deep skillet, heat about two cups of oil(depending on the pan size) over medium-high heat until hot. Test the temperature by dropping a pinch of flour into the hot oil. If it bubbles right away without smoking, it's ready.
  7. Fry at 350 F. until golden brown and cooked through. (I check the biggest piece) let cool before adding to the salad.
  8. Mix all pasta with the chicken, blue cheese, mayonnaise, hot sauce, red bell pepper or red onion, celery,green onion and parsley.
  9. You can garnish with extra blue cheese crumbles, and chopped parsley.
  10. Note #1.. Hot sauces very greatly Crystal Hot Sauce and Franks Hot Sauce work well… they are a sweet heat. Tabasco will ruin this recipe. It is just to hot…Great on Oysters not on this Recipe:)
  11. Note #2 If you do not want to fry, you can buy popcorn chicken at a grocery store or, KFC, or Popeyes and skip steps 1,2,3,4,5 :p

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