Chicken Pasta Salad – A Tasty Pasta Salad With Chicken

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This Chicken Pasta Salad is easy to make, for a side dish, picnic, barbecue or to use for a dinner idea. It’s delicious and healthy!

I love salads like this for the 4th of July and other holidays because it ticks a lot of boxes! Easy to make, healthy, and cold (which makes it easy to take to potlucks and is refreshing for summer dinners) uses one of our favorite pasta noodles bow ties, and you can use your favorite pasta salad dressings with the recipe!

If you are looking for more options. See all our pasta salad recipes to make for get-togethers, holidays, celebrations or just to make for side dishes or an easy dinner. Try any of these delicious cold pasta salad recipes.

Chicken Pasta Salad

You might remember our recipe for Italian Chicken Pasta Salad This recipe is slightly different. If you need step-by-step directions for cooking the chicken pop over to this recipe.

But, you can use pre-cooked chicken, grilled chicken, or chicken sausage, or purchase a rotisserie chicken and chop it into bite-size pieces. 

Or as mentioned, cook chicken fresh for the pasta salad using the directions from the Italian Chicken Pasta Salad it only takes about 15 minutes.

You can adapt this recipe! Are you a vegetarian? Just leave out the chicken. Or serving vegetarians, and meat-eaters, just keep your chicken in a chilled side dish.

Pasta Salad With Chicken

Vegetables For Pasta Salad

I’ve always been a fan of pasta salads and often we just use our favorite seasonal fresh vegetables to make cold salads like this. This recipe is easily adaptable to include your favorite vegetables.

Other ingredients you might like to add to the recipe are avocadoes, cooked corn, chickpeas, celery, peas, red bell pepper, broccoli…You get the idea.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of Shredded Carrots
• 1 Cucumber
• Half of a Red Onion
• 3 Green Onions
• 1 Yellow Bell Pepper
• Black Olives
• Canned Artichoke Hearts (optional)
• 1 Basket of Cherry Tomatoes
• 2 Cups of Cooked Chicken (or what you have on hand)
• Cooked Bow Tie Pasta Noodles (or other pasta noodles)

Instructions

Note: 1 package of bow tie noodles will serve up to 8 people. Half a package will serve up to 4.

1. Cook the bow tie noodles according to the directions for al dente noodles. After draining the noodles, rinse them in cold water. Shake off excess water and add them to a large bowl.
2. Rinse and chop or slice all your vegetables.
3. Slice your black olives and canned artichoke hearts.
4. Mix all the ingredients into the bowl with the noodles.
5. Add the chopped cooked chicken into the bowl (or) make a separate bowl for adding the chicken to the pasta salad.
   Are you serving vegetarians? Omit the chicken or keep it separate.
6. Use your favorite pasta salad dressing. Or serve it with bottled dressings for everyone to pick from.
   So many options! Ranch Dressing, Honey Mustard Dressing, Cafe Style Dressing… Or make a homemade pasta salad dressing like this.
7. Enjoy!

Notes: Keep the pasta salad chilled. Or in the refrigerator, until ready to serve!

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Printable Chicken Pasta Salad Recipe

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Yield: Serves 6-8

Chicken Pasta Salad

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Chicken Pasta Salad is easy to make, for a side dish, picnic, barbecue or to use for a dinner idea. This recipe is delicious, easy to adapt and ticks boxes like healthy, cold, with bow tie noodles, fresh, and tasty!

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Additional Time 15 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup of Shredded Carrots
• 1 Cucumber
• Half of a Red Onion
• 3 Green Onions
• 1 Yellow Bell Pepper
• 1 can of Black Olives
• 1 can of Artichoke Hearts (optional)
• 1 Basket of Cherry Tomatoes
• 2 Cups of Cooked Chicken (or what you have on hand)
• Bow Tie Noodles (or other pasta noodles)

Instructions

1. Cook the bow tie noodles according to the directions for al dente noodles. After draining the noodles, rinse them in cold water. Shake off excess water and add them into a large bowl.
2. Rinse and chop or slice all your vegetables.
3. Slice your black olives and canned artichoke hearts.
4. Mix all the ingredients into the bowl with the noodles.
5. Add the chopped cooked chicken into the bowl (or) make a separate bowl for adding the chicken to the pasta salad.Are you serving vegetarians? Omit the chicken or keep it separate.
6. Use your favorite pasta salad dressing. Or serve it with bottled dressings for everyone to pick from.So many options! Ranch, Honey BBQ, Cafe Dressing…

Enjoy!

Notes

• Keep the pasta salad chilled. Or in the refrigerator, until ready to serve!
• You can cut the recipe in half! 1 package of bow tie noodles will serve up to 8 people. Half a package will serve up to 4. Adjust the vegetables and chicken by half or to your liking.
• Other ingredients you might like to add to the recipe are avocadoes, cooked corn, chickpeas, celery, peas, red bell pepper, broccoli...
• Cook chicken for this recipe (Instructions for cooking the chicken here). https://www.dearcreatives.com/italian-chicken-pasta-salad-recipe/
• Or use pre-cooked chicken, grilled chicken, chicken sausage, or purchase a rotisserie chicken and chop it into bite-size pieces. 

You get the idea.

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Nutrition Information

Yield

8

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 122Total Fat 5gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 32mgSodium 41mgCarbohydrates 10gFiber 1gSugar 2gProtein 10g

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