Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, buffalo chicken pasta salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 lovers. 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 salad.

Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is only one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Prepare Marinade
  3. Take 3 ounces buttermilk
  4. Get 3 ounces crystal hot sauce
  5. Make ready 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  6. Take 1 ounce lemon juice
  7. Prepare Corn starch mixture
  8. Get 1 cup corn starch
  9. Take 1 tablespoon salt
  10. Prepare 1 tablespoon white pepper or black is fine
  11. Get 1 teaspoon cayenne
  12. Make ready 2 cups oil- vegetable oil is fine
  13. Make ready 3 ounces crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters)
  14. Make ready 3 ounces mayonnaise
  15. Take 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
  16. Make ready 8 ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions
  17. Make ready 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. Get 2 tablespoon parsley,finely chopped

I love the classic Buffalo Chicken flavors, so adding that into a pasta salad recipe is such a great combo. It's just the right amount of spice and heat to add to any summertime spread. This Easy Pasta Salad Recipe is so unique and delicious! Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is a quick and easy recipe perfect for a game day party or a summer picnic.

Steps 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

Tender pasta is tossed with a creamy buffalo sauce and fresh vegetables all topped off with crumbled bleu cheese for a side dish bursting with flavor and crunch! In a large pot of heavily salted boiling water, cook the rigatoni according to the package directions for al dente. Drain and (once cooled) add to a large bowl along with the chicken, celery and. This Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad has a light taste and would be great as a side dish or main dish. Perfect for dinner, tailgating, or a picnic and it's great HOT or COLD.

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