Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

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Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Pasta, bell peppers, onion, and grilled chicken are tossed in a spicy mayo, blue cheese and wing sauce dressing. This is a pasta salad for Buffalo wing Add the chicken, bell peppers, red onion, and cooked pasta and toss to coat with the dressing. And pasta salad may just be the glue that holds these cookouts together — I don't think I've ever been to any summertime celebration where there wasn't Your pasta salad and your cookout deserve to be amped up a notch or two, and that's why I've finally perfected this recipe for buffalo chicken pasta.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Get 8 Oz. boneless chicken meat, 1/2" dice (up to 8 ounces extra would work without changing the marinade and cornstarch mixture
  2. Make ready Marinade
  3. Take 3 ounces buttermilk
  4. Get 3 ounces crystal hot sauce
  5. Prepare 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  6. Prepare 1 ounce lemon juice
  7. Prepare Corn starch mixture
  8. Get 1 cup corn starch
  9. Make ready 1 tablespoon salt
  10. Get 1 tablespoon white pepper or black is fine
  11. Prepare 1 teaspoon cayenne
  12. Take 2 cups oil- vegetable oil is fine
  13. Take 3 ounces crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters)
  14. Take 3 ounces mayonnaise
  15. Make ready 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
  16. Make ready 8 ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions
  17. Prepare 1/2 small red bell pepper or red onion, diced
  18. Take 1 green onion chopped
  19. Prepare 1 stalk celery 1 inch julienne cut
  20. Prepare 2 tablespoon parsley,finely chopped

Buffalo Chicken Pasta SaladThe Girl Who Ate Everything. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is tender pasta tossed in a tangy buffalo wing sauce with shredded chicken, tomatoes, celery. Add a drizzle of ranch dressing and you're ready for a party! The buffalo chicken flavor permeates throughout this pasta salad.

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

You can use any type of chicken you'd like and it should work well. That great Buffalo chicken flavor permeates this terrific salad. While it's got a bit of a kick to it, I plan to add even MORE dressing to mine the next time I make it. This Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is a fun, creamy, spicy twist on traditional pasta salad that makes a great main dish for lunch or dinner as well a crowd-pleasing potluck option. I liked the idea of lightening it up a bit by making it part pasta salad, part green salad using the Romaine and it turned out amazing.

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