Cajun chicken pasta salad
Cajun chicken pasta salad

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, cajun chicken pasta salad. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Cajun chicken pasta salad is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Cajun chicken pasta salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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. Sprinkle Cajun seasoning over the chicken breasts (just enough to lightly coat). Flip the breasts over and do the same on the other side.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cajun chicken pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cajun chicken pasta salad:
  1. Take Orecchiette pasta
  2. Make ready Cavatapi pasta
  3. Make ready 1/8 cup Paul Prudome poultry seasoning at least
  4. Get Italian dressing
  5. Get French dressing
  6. Get Bell peppers different colors cut into matchsticks and chunks
  7. Prepare Black olives
  8. Take Green onion
  9. Make ready Yellow onion
  10. Take 3 halves Chicken breast
  11. Get The best olive oil you can find

To put the salad together, add half the chicken and half the cooked peppers to a large bowl with the drained pasta. Pour in the dressing and toss together, so everything is evenly coated in the dressing. Then, over the top, add the remaining chicken, roasted peppers, charred corn and sliced avocado. Add chopped chicken, zip closed, and shake until chicken is coated.

Steps to make Cajun chicken pasta salad:
  1. Boil pasta al dente drain… set aside
  2. 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.
  3. Have chopped peppers onion olives chopped and ready
  4. When chicken is done add rest of veggies
  5. Stir for a minute or 2 then add french dressing and Italian dressing let it simmer for a few minutes.
  6. Cool off (tastes great warm too)
  7. Put cooled pasta salad in fridge overnight
  8. Flavors get better overnight!!!
  9. 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)

Then, over the top, add the remaining chicken, roasted peppers, charred corn and sliced avocado. Add chopped chicken, zip closed, and shake until chicken is coated. Transfer chicken to heated pan and cook until chicken is browned and just cooked through. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook the pasta in gently boiling water until al dente.

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