Cajun chicken pasta salad. Chicken dredged in Cajun spices is sauteed with bell peppers and mushrooms, and presented in a basil-cream sauce over linguine. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Place the chicken and the Cajun seasoning in a plastic bag.
This content is imported from embed-name. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able. Easy One Pot Cajun Chicken & Pasta Recipe. You can have Cajun chicken pasta salad using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Cajun chicken pasta salad
- It’s of Orecchiette pasta.
- It’s of Cavatapi pasta.
- Prepare 1/8 cup of Paul Prudome poultry seasoning at least.
- It’s of Italian dressing.
- You need of French dressing.
- You need of Bell peppers different colors cut into matchsticks and chunks.
- It’s of Black olives.
- It’s of Green onion.
- It’s of Yellow onion.
- Prepare 3 halves of Chicken breast.
- It’s of The best olive oil you can find.
There are several ways you can customize this super simple and delicious one pot pasta. BUT you can adjust the heat by adjusting the amount of cayenne pepper in the Cajun seasoning. You can cut it in half for just. Indeed, Cajun Chicken Pasta with Sausage just seemed like a natural choice!
Cajun chicken pasta salad step by step
- Boil pasta al dente drain… set aside.
- Put oil in skillet (this gets really smokey if you can do this outside do it)Cut chicken breasts into bite sized chunks coat with olive oil…and paul prudome poultry seasoning (coat it well) when the oil in the skillet is smoking (be careful fine line here between smoking and a fire) the coated chicken gets crispy in the high heat (blackened) cook through..
- Have chopped peppers onion olives chopped and ready.
- When chicken is done add rest of veggies.
- Stir for a minute or 2 then add french dressing and Italian dressing let it simmer for a few minutes..
- Cool off (tastes great warm too).
- Put cooled pasta salad in fridge overnight.
- Flavors get better overnight!!!.
- This can be adjusted to feed a few or alot of people…. use amounts that make sense to you (I know….for you people who measure everything this kinda sucks sorry).
Quick and easy dinner is always something I have on my mind. Nothing spells summer much more than a good. A Cajun Chicken Salad with a homemade Cajun spice seasoning and the most incredible creamy cajun dressing to put out the fire (so to speak)! I reserved a few teaspoons to smother on crackers later on because HELLO CAJUN SPICED DIP! I used chicken thighs for this salad, but I have tried.
