Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, buffalo chicken pasta salad. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. This buffalo chicken pasta salad has the perfect combination of noodles, crisp veggies, tangy buffalo chicken and a cooling ranch sauce. Topped with creamy blue cheese for an easy summer salad the entire family will love!

Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have buffalo chicken pasta salad using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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. Take Marinade
  3. Prepare 3 ounces buttermilk
  4. Make ready 3 ounces crystal hot sauce
  5. Make ready 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  6. Take 1 ounce lemon juice
  7. Take Corn starch mixture
  8. Prepare 1 cup corn starch
  9. Make ready 1 tablespoon salt
  10. Prepare 1 tablespoon white pepper or black is fine
  11. Prepare 1 teaspoon cayenne
  12. Get 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. Get 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
  16. Prepare 8 ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions
  17. Prepare 1/2 small red bell pepper or red onion, diced
  18. Make ready 1 green onion chopped
  19. Get 1 stalk celery 1 inch julienne cut
  20. Take 2 tablespoon parsley,finely chopped

Full of buffalo flavors, this buffalo chicken pasta salad is one of my favorite side dishes at potlucks and tailgate parties, but you could also serve it as a main. It can be eaten warm or cold so it's easy to make ahead of time. Sometimes I even use precooked small shrimp instead of the chicken or leave. With the official start of football season here, it's time to tailgate!

Instructions to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
  1. 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.
  2. (In class we marinate for 45 minutes the longer the better)
  3. Remove chicken from marinade - drain well
  4. Mix the cornstarch,salt,white pepper and cayenne. Dredge chicken with seasoned cornstarch mixture and shake off the excess coating.
  5. 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.
  6. Fry at 350 F. until golden brown and cooked through. (I check the biggest piece) let cool before adding to the salad.
  7. Mix all pasta with the chicken, blue cheese, mayonnaise, hot sauce, red bell pepper or red onion, celery,green onion and parsley.
  8. You can garnish with extra blue cheese crumbles, and chopped parsley.
  9. 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:)
  10. 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

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. Pour over buffalo sauce and toss it through the pasta salad. This DELICIOUS Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is filled with tomatoes, bacon, boneless buffalo chicken wings, pasta and topped with an amazing homemade Ranch Bleu dressing! This creamy crowd-pleasing pasta salad features the tantalizing flavors of Buffalo chicken with a healthy dose of vegetables.

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