How To Make Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad
Our pasta salad recipe that’s mixed in with chicken breasts, bacon, cheddar cheese, and a creamy ranch dressing is perfect for picnics and bbq parties!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2chicken breasts,boneless, skinless
- ½tspkosher salt
- ½tspblack pepper,cracked
- 2tbspcanola oil
- 4ozcream cheese,at room temperature
- 8ozbacon,cooked, crumbled
- 8ozsharp cheddar cheese,diced finely in ½-inch cubes
- 1cupranch dressing
- 1lbfusilli pasta,cooked
Instructions
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Butterfly the chicken breasts open, cutting them to be the same shape but half as thick.
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Add the salt and pepper to the chicken breasts.
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Add the canola oil to the large skillet and heat on high heat.
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Add chicken to the pan and sear for 3 to 5 minutes.
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Flip the chicken and cook on the other side.
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Remove from the pan and let cool.
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Chop the chicken into 1-inch cubes.
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In a large bowl, add the cream cheese and ranch dressing and mix well.
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Add the chicken, bacon, cheddar cheese, ranch dressing and pasta.
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Toss together until well coated.
Nutrition
- Calories: 362.33kcal
- Fat: 23.72g
- Saturated Fat: 7.83g
- Trans Fat: 0.30g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.64g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 6.15g
- Carbohydrates: 22.75g
- Fiber: 0.93g
- Sugar: 1.87g
- Protein: 14.06g
- Cholesterol: 49.43mg
- Sodium: 361.56mg
- Calcium: 116.28mg
- Potassium: 170.49mg
- Iron: 0.69mg
- Vitamin A: 72.12µg
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