Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken pesto pasta salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Let Our Collection Of Easy & Simple Recipes Guide You In The Kitchen. Browse Now 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.

Chicken pesto pasta salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken pesto pasta salad is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken pesto pasta salad using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken pesto pasta salad:

1. Take 3 cup mixed salad leaves
2. Take 1/2 a large cucumber
3. Get 1 medium sliced onion
4. Take 2 large chicken breasts
5. Get 250 grams cooked pasta of your choice
6. Get 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. Get 1 tsp crushed garlic
9. Take 1 bit of oil to toss pasta, and a few tbsp of butter to cook chicken
10. Make ready 6 tbsp pesto

Using homemade pesto will taste even better, but it adds to prep time. Super easy pasta salad- wonderful for any thing from a brunch to a summer dinner. My husbands co-worker brought this to share for an event and he begged for the recipe. The only particular is that the pasta salad will taste best if you use the pesto in a plastic container in the refrigerated section.

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.

Summer is at it's peak and what to do with a garden full of basil? 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. No, we will stick with calling it a pasta salad. More specifically, a Chicken Pesto Pasta Salad.

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