Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad
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- Prep Time10 min
- Total Time20 min
- Makes6 servings
Recipe by Jennifer Pallian. Produced by Sun Ngo. Photography by Christie Vuong. Food Styling by Ashley Denton. Prop Styling by Christine Hanlon.
Toss saucy Buffalo chicken with fresh veggies and a tangy blue-cheese dressing for a spicy-creamy combination that’s hard to beat.
Ingredients
227 g penne pasta
2 cups cooked chicken, shredded or chopped
1/4 cup Buffalo sauce
1 cup cherry tomatoes, diced
1/2 cup diced celery
2 tbsp minced fresh parsley
1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
Dressing
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tbsp mayonnaise
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp minced shallot
1 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp pepper
Instructions
Cook pasta in salted water, following package directions, until al dente. Drain and rinse under cold water. Refrigerate overnight if possible. (See Kitchen tip.)
Dressing: Whisk sour cream with mayo, lemon juice, shallot, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Set aside.
Stir chicken with Buffalo sauce in a large bowl until evenly coated. Add pasta, tomatoes, celery and parsley. Drizzle with dressing, then toss to combine. Sprinkle blue cheese overtop.
Kitchen tip Cooling pasta in the fridge overnight allows for more extensive realignment of the starch molecules. It will have a chewier texture and won’t slurp up all the dressing or break from tossing. However, you should still cool the pasta quickly in cold water first to halt the cooking process so that it stays al dente.
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Jennifer Pallian is a food scientist, recipe developer and blogger at Foodess. She lives in Vancouver.
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