I love chicken salad, pasta salad, and plain old regular salad. Guess what, if you mash them all up in this Herb Chicken Pasta Salad, the result is delicious! Here is the perfect Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe. When I worked at a restaurant (Pizzaria Uno) I always added some cooked ziti noodles in my Caesar salad to bulk it up a bit. I really don’t know what took me so long to do this at home. Considering I stopped working there in 2011, you would think I would have thought of this earlier.
To save a few bucks, buy a family pack of chicken, make a dish earlier in the week, and cook the extra chicken so you have leftovers you can use instead of buying the rotisserie. Here is a recipe for broiled chicken thighs that will leave you with yummy leftovers for this recipe!
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Herb Chicken Pasta Salad
Equipment
- 1 3 Qt Pot
Ingredients
- 8 ounces rotini pasta half of a 1lb box, I used rotini
Dressing
- 1 cup plain greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon dried dill
- 2-3 tablespoons chives chopped
Salad
- 1 rotisserie chicken removed from the bones and shredded/chopped or 2-3 cups of leftover chicken
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- 1 cucumber sliced in half moons
- 8 cups mixed greens 1 prewashed plastic container from the grocer
Instructions
- Prepare your pasta according to the package instructions. Drain and rinse with cool water. While the pasta is cooking, make the dressing, and get your chicken ready by removing the meat from the bones and chopping it up.
- Make the dressing. In a bowl large enough to hold all the chicken and pasta, add the yogurt, mayo, 2 tablespoons of water, vinegar, mustard, dill, chives, and 1 teaspoon of salt and whisk to combine.
- Add the chicken, pasta, and celery to the dressing. Mix well. Serve this over a bed of mixed greens with some chopped up cucumber around it.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is an estimate and will vary depending on the brands and ingredients you choose.
I think this is a really fantastic idea, it’s healthy, it’s filling and with all those flavours, it must be really wonderful! What a great idea!