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 is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is something which I have loved my entire life.

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. Cook penne according to package directions.

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

The ingredients needed to make Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad:
  1. Prepare 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. Get 3 ounces buttermilk
  4. Prepare 3 ounces crystal hot sauce
  5. Make ready 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  6. Prepare 1 ounce lemon juice
  7. Take Corn starch mixture
  8. Take 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. Get 2 cups oil- vegetable oil is fine
  13. Make ready 3 ounces crystal hot sauce (See note below.. Hot Sauce Matters)
  14. Prepare 3 ounces mayonnaise
  15. Get 3 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
  16. Get 8 ounces- dry bow tie pasta- cooked per the box instructions
  17. Take 1/2 small red bell pepper or red onion, diced
  18. Get 1 green onion chopped
  19. Get 1 stalk celery 1 inch julienne cut
  20. Take 2 tablespoon parsley,finely chopped

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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

As you may already know I love buffalo chicken recipes and all other buffalo type recipes. This easy Buffalo Chicken Pasta Salad is one of my faves! 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! Need an easy recipe to bring to a BBQ?

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